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TKO Performance
IMO, steroids should be legal. Quite frankly why does some holier-than-thou authority get to dictate what people can and cannot put into their bodies? Up until about 100 years ago Americans had the right to use any drug they wanted, including cocaine and heroin, which could be purchased either mail order or over the counter at the local pharmacy.
The bottom line is that criminalizing drugs has only created more criminals, and more of a drug problem. How many billions if not trillions of dollars have been spent in the war on drugs? A war that has been ongoing for three decades. If that's a war, gentlemen, we've lost. The very concept ignores that the drug trade is plain and simple founded in economics. If there is a demand; there will be a supply. The only way that it could possibly be curbed would be to kill every drug user, drug dealer, smuggler, etc. If the idea of using drugs carried a certain death sentence then maybe you'd get people to stop, but probably there'd still be those that would use. Plus, are we really going to execute a guy for smoking a joint? I think not.
To stop drug use and therefore addiction the social ills from which it is born and bred must be corrected. If that is not done then nothing else will work. By legalizing certain drugs like marijuana and taxing it the revenue that the government would make would be staggering. I don't think I favor legalizing harder drugs like cocaine, heroine, etc., but they should be decriminalized. The push should be to get people clean, not throw them in jail, which clogs up the justice system and costs the taxpayers tons of money.
I see nothing wrong with doctors being able to prescribe steroids. No, I don't think health insurance should pay for them unless there is a legitimate medical condition, but what the hell everyone is already paying for them out of pocket anyway. This would ensure safe, legit product in the hands of consumers, and people would not be as terrified to tell their medical professionals about steroid use, and seek help/assistance.
I mean seriously, tobacco and alcohol are legal, and always will be. Those two substances kill more people than all the other drugs combined and times ten every year. You can't legislate morality. It fails every time. Look at prohibition.