WASHINGTON -- Any teen with a computer and an e-mail address can obtain anabolic steroids.
> Really? Damn kids find the best sites, I keep getting peanut oil instead of Deca!
Distributors face little chance of being caught, congressional investigators said in a report issued Thursday.
>> Go figure I thought maybe they would fly right over to "God only knows where they are" and arrest them. No reason to get Coke and Crack off the street, lets spend all out time and go after the guys that like working out.
The Government Accountability Office study found the Internet makes it easy for mainly overseas distributors to avoid detection. And for those who are caught, the penalties are much lighter than for many other illegal drugs.
>> Gosh did they say it twice in a row for a dramatic effect or what.. Steroid steroids steroids are bad bad bad bad (imagine a fading echo there)
The report was released as the Zero Tolerance Roundtable
>> the only thing ROUND at this table for the beer bellies of the lard asses making up the rules.
Which brings together professional, college and high school athletic representatives, advocacy groups and parents of steroid victims,
>> Parents of Steroid Victims.. All you people here better call your mom and dad and say you are sorry for what you are doing to yourselves.
held its second meeting to address the growing problem of steroid use by young people.
>> why don't they hold a meeting about the millions of people dying from being overweight and not exercising at all every year.. I would guess that more than 1000X the number of deaths from steroid "abuse" comes from being just plain fat and lazy.. no I do not have medical facts on this but it is my guess
The roundtable was formed by the House Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. He and ranking Democrat Henry Waxman of California requested the GAO study.
>> Maybe someone should point Waxman to AAR Store so he can grow some hair back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Waxman damn juicer!
"Dangerous and illegal steroids are just a mouse click away," Waxman said.
>> That is going to make me stop taking them today.. I am not even going to do PCT I am so scared now.
"Parents, teachers, and coaches are on the front lines in the fight against steroid abuse, and they need to know that young athletes and other youth have such easy access to these harmful substances."
>> The problem is these guys can't fight because they have a beer in one hand and a donut in the other.
Steroids build muscle
>> Without working out?? Sweet!!
but also can lead to heart attacks, strokes, cancer, sterility and mood swings.
>> Oh see there they go again always bring up the negative
The use of most steroids without a doctor's prescription has been illegal since 1991.
>> Yeah for doctors
Accusations of steroid use among major league baseball players spurred congressional interest this year. Davis, Waxman and other lawmakers say stringent testing is needed in pro sports leagues to ensure a level playing field and to show teens that performance-enhancing drugs aren't a way to a pro sports career.
>> It might not be a way in but if you want to be any good 
.. J/K.. But just think of this.. how cool would it be to go to a football or baseball game where everyone was so juiced that they would be ripping each other apart on the field.. oh wait that already happens.
Sens. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., and John McCain, R-Ariz., are sponsoring legislation calling for a two-year suspension of an athlete who fails a steroids test for the first time and a lifetime ban for a second offense. Athletes would be tested at least five times a year.
>> All this will lead to is cheating on the drug tests and/or designer steroids.
House bills with similar testing minimums and punishments have been proposed, including the Clean Sports Act of 2005 authored by Davis, whose panel held a March hearing with baseball stars Rafael Palmeiro and Mark McGwire and baseball officials including Commissioner Bud Selig.
>> what?!?!?! McGuire does this crap?? I thought he said he only did creatine?
The GAO report found there are hundreds of Web sites offering anabolic steroids. The anonymity of the Internet makes dealers difficult to find.
>> Again with the repeating
"Internet sites can be installed, moved, or removed easily and quickly, making it difficult for law enforcement agencies to identify, track, monitor, or shut them down," the report said.
>> Yup and it takes two minutes to update DNS setting and get a site running again on a different server.. idiots
Investigators looking into steroid sales placed and paid for 22 online orders using fictitious personal information. They received 10 shipments of steroids, all from outside the United States.
>> I wonder if they came to AAR to do a source check? I bet if they did they would not have gotten ripped off so many times.
Law enforcement officials interviewed for the report said the foreign origin of the steroids makes them hard to track and noted that the Internet also makes it easy to market the drugs to young people.
>> Here we go again.. I guess if you say it enough times it makes it true
Federal sentencing guidelines provide lighter penalties for steroid dealers. For example, someone convicted of selling 40,000 pills of an anabolic steroid faces only up to six months in jail while someone selling 40,000 pills of certain other controlled substances could get up to 41 months.
>> that sounds like crap to me.. I have heard of guys getting tons more time for selling AAS than coke..
Originally Posted by longhorn814
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