U.S. Anabolic Steroid Punishments Increased

[Ufa]

03.27.06 - U.S. Anabolic Steroid Punishments Increased!
The U.S. Sentencing Commission has published notice of temporary "emergency" (i.e., immediate) amendments to the federal anabolic steroid sentencing guidelines. Henceforth, injectable and oral steroids will be quantified for punishment in a 1:1 ratio to other Schedule III drugs, resulting in a twenty-fold measurement increase for injectable steroid units and a fifty-fold increase for oral steroid units. Steroids in other forms ("e.g., patch, topical cream, aerosol") will be reasonably estimated based on a consideration of 25mg as one unit. Additionally, sentencing enhancements will apply in cases involving distribution to "athletes" or where coaches use their positions to influence athletes to use steroids , as well as in cases involving "masking agents." While likely to impact dealers more than personal users, the new 1:1 ratio nonetheless ignores fundamental differences between steroid usage and volume patterns as compared to other Schedule III drugs. Other potential problems with the amendments include the lack of any reference to potency in oral or injectable steroids, potentially leading to black market adaptations to circumvent the amendment (e.g., the creation of high potency "mega-pills") as well as the lack of any knowledge requirement involving distribution (e.g., via the Internet) to unidentifiable customers who may turn out to be athletes. It is expected that the revisions will be made permanent by Congress in November. [For further information, see the written testimony of Rick Collins to the Sentencing Commission, the transcript of his appearance before the Commission, the Report of the USSC Steroids Working Group, and the Commission's Notice of Amendment to the guidelines.]

This looks like something that congress does in the middle of the night!

[Nasser]

SOB'S, Canada will probably follow soon, Harper and Bush are new pals so Im sure were next!

[SVTMuscle*]

Gotta love it. "Lets hurry and make the things more illegal!"

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Sadly, this is not an April Fools day joke:

http://www.ussc.gov/FEDREG/March06FedReg.pdf

http://www.ussc.gov/USSCsteroidsreport-0306.pdf

[TheRel33]

**** the U.S government. I like how we are supposed to be a free country but they try to control everything we do. Freedom of speech yet we have censorship on t.v. we are supposed to be able to live our lives like we want yet they tell us what we can and can't take and what is good for us and what isn't it's all a bunch of bullshit!

[Rookie1974]

Well said Rel33

[TheRel33]

thanks bro

[notanormalgent]

Wow...this isn't good...Maybe steroid users can unite with the hippies and recall Bush before this becomes permanent?

[Boricua Pump]

Well what can you expect. In the high school I graduated from, more and more kids are using anabolics, especially the baseball and football teams.