{"id":3233,"date":"2014-05-13T14:25:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-06-19T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:34:53","slug":"steroid-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/steroid-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Steroid Laws in US – German Man Busted – Discovers How Tough US Steroid Law Can Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

US residents know how ridiculously harsh the steroid laws are in America.\u00a0 But since most countries outside of the United States don\u2019t demonize steroids, their residents sometimes unassumingly bring steroids and HGH into America accidentally breaking our steroid laws.\u00a0 And, as Francesco Gigliotti found out, this mistake can be very costly \u2013 even if you\u2019ve done nothing wrong!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alcohol is illegal in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 In fact, just having one drink in Saudi Arabia could land you in jail for anywhere from a few weeks to several months.\u00a0 If you take alcohol into the country then you could be looking at several years in a Saudi prison.\u00a0 Unfortunately, not everyone who travels to Saudi Arabia is clear on this since almost every other country in the world allows people of legal age to drink.<\/p>\n

\"SteroidEven if you never drink, just imagine flying from a country where alcohol flows freely to Saudi Arabia with a case of beer and no clue about the laws there.\u00a0 You\u2019d be tossed in jail, or worse yet, prison just for being unclear on a law that most countries don\u2019t have.\u00a0 And the bad thing is, the same thing is happening to people who travel to the United States with steroids in their luggage and unknowingly breal our steroid laws.\u00a0 Cologne, Germany native Francesco Gigliotti found this out the hard way when he was busted for having steroids in his luggage.<\/p>\n

The 45 year-old Gigliotti was detained at the Southwest International Airport in Florida after federal agents searched his luggage and discovered a 250-mg\/ml ampoule of testosterone along with a 2-mL dosage of nandrolone decanoate; this was in addition to syringes and needles they found for the dosages.\u00a0 Immediately after agents discovered the steroids and testosterone in Francesco Gigliotti\u2019s luggage, he was thrown in jail and slapped with 5 different felony charges.\u00a0 One count was for possession of drug paraphernalia while two other counts were for possession of testosterone and steroids.<\/p>\n

And while the blind public may have looked at the first couple paragraphs of this news story and simply said Gigliotti got what he deserved, there is much more to it than what is on the surface.\u00a0 That\u2019s because Francesco Gigliotti is currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy and, as indicated by the small dosages found in his luggage, there is no reason to think Gigliotti is lying about this.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more is that this man is a member of the European Union and was on a business trip to Florida.\u00a0 So it\u2019s not like the 45 year-old businessman was smuggling steroids into the country so he could juice right before hitting Gold\u2019s Gym.\u00a0 But as the 5 felony charges leveled at Gigliotti indicate, there is no mercy for juicers in America \u2013 even if it\u2019s just an international visitor on hormone replacement therapy.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the fact that Francesco Gigliotti is a middle-aged man on hormone replacement therapy will help him get out of the trouble he\u2019s in.\u00a0 I think with this being the case it\u2019s highly likely he won\u2019t be convicted of all the felony charges against him.\u00a0 But what if Gigliotti wasn\u2019t on hormone replacement therapy, and was just a bodybuilder who didn\u2019t know much about the United State\u2019s strict laws on steroids.\u00a0 Would he be busted for all 5 felony counts then?<\/p>\n

As sad as it is, I think the answer would probably be yes just because he would have been using the drugs for cosmetic purposes.\u00a0 This definitely brings up an important issue about whether or not it\u2019s fair for somebody who lives outside of the United States to be subject to such harsh laws.\u00a0 I realize that, as the courts always say, ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law - even our draconian steroid laws.\u00a0 But most of the world doesn\u2019t view steroids with as much prejudice as the US government and media does.\u00a0 In fact, if you check out many other country\u2019s laws on steroids, you\u2019d find that the United States is one of the worst places to juice.<\/p>\n

Just look at the country I kicked off this article off with in Saudi Arabia where alcohol is looked at as an absolute evil.\u00a0 Steroids were actually legal to buy over the counter up until 2005 when they were made illegal along with a number of other sanctions imposed that year.\u00a0 Still, Saudi Arabians aren\u2019t going to be thrown in the slammer for months on end just for possessing steroids like they would be in the United States (just make sure you\u2019re never caught with a Budweiser over there though).<\/p>\n

Even better yet, consider Saudi Arabia\u2019s neighbor to the north in Kuwait.\u00a0 Citizens of Kuwait can walk into any local pharmacy and get the steroids they want just like an American could get any cold medicine he wanted in a pharmacy here.\u00a0 In Kuwait there\u2019s no need to go underground to get steroids where one could get ripped off or worse, mamed by using fake gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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