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04-02-2014, 02:59 PM #1
Steroid legality or at least a loosening of the noose - the argument has always been there's not enough research to risk a change in the laws, but that's simply not true. There is close to 100yrs of data and even new data is often ignored "because it's the right thing to do." Look at pot and how the laws are changing, a lot of this has to do with lobbying. Phillip Morris has fought to keep pot illegal for years out of fear of it taking away from cigarette sales, but some years back they changed their tune and have bought the TM Marlboro Greens...looks just like their cigarette packages except green with a pot leaf on the front. All the people that want pot legalized, that helps but they have money behind them now with groups like Phillip Morris. Someone in the pharmacy world will have to see the same thing for the laws to really ever change.
Sports - people don't care if it's their team. Remember when Bonds was on the verge of breaking the home run record? Everyone hated him, except everyone in San Francisco, they cheered non-stop. But the sports argument is a small one and one the government uses to support their protecting the children and false morality claims. But only around 10% of all steroid users use gear for the purpose of sport and most of those are not professional. And the children argument, worst argument in the world but I'll let that one go for now.
Bodybuilding - the problem isn't the amount of drugs. Bodybuilders were at their height of disgusting in the 1990's and that's when they had the largest crowd following. The problem with bodybuilding now is it wants to be hip and cool, it tries to present itself in a way that it's not and it's a turnoff. It makes it fake, stupid and honestly idiotic. They try to present these guys as rock star athletes now and make the events sound like you're missing the biggest concert that ever happened with wild crazy after parties that you'd see at a porn shoot. But it's anything but that - portray a false image and you look like an idiot. Bodybuilding will never be mainstream like the NFL but they'd have more of a following like they once did if they portrayed themselves as they actually are. And as far as steroids go, the NFL is right up their with the same levels of use - they just don't diet down to gross levels and take all the diuretics, that's the only difference.
Most important - steroid users, unlike the pot crowd, they're scared. Steroid users hide behind fake names on message boards, admit to no one of their use and when it comes down to it, live as if they're ashamed of their use. Pot users, the exact opposite. When steroid users grow some balls (as big as atrophied balls can grow, lol), along with the pharmacy issue above, then things will change. Yes, more and more positive research helps but it will take all three things. But we could say most steroid users are idiotic meatheads, but again, that's just another false assumption. There was a huge study/survey of steroid users done several years ago, I can dig it up if anyone's interested, that described the population of steroid users by stats. The avg. income of a steroid user in the U.S. is $20,000+ a year more than the national average. 70 something % work in white collar jobs, the rate of college degrees was almost 98%, the rate of steroid users that were in a fraternity in college was less than 5%. The number of steroid users with criminal records was less than 1% and the average age was mid-30's and up. (tons of stats in this thing but that's all I can remember off the top of my head) The point - steroid users in the U.S. do not represent the crowd of people we're led to believe, at least not the majority.
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