gorillahung
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Something I posted on a thread earlier made me wonder this question. I can't think of another country that's as harsh as the USA in terms of legal status of testosterone. The UK allows personal use quantities legally but distribution is illegal. The USA placed AAS on the schedule 3 list of controlled substances. This means that by the government's standards, illegal testosterone possession is more severe than illegal benzodiazepine possession. I remember when Congress passed the Anabolic Steroid Control Act back in 1991 if I remember properly (this was the first President Bush's biggest achievement), both the American Medical Association and the DEA both testified that anabolic steroids did not meet the controlled substance criteria and should not be made controlled substances. Despite this testimony, Congress ignored the medical community and law enforcement and placed them as schedule 3 controlled substances. For a frame of reference, everyone's favorite Oxycontin was initially a schedule 3 controlled substance but was later bumped up to a schedule 2 only after a few hundred thousand people had overdosed on it. I have yet to see a person overdose on testosterone (it's impossible, if you take too much at once, you simply have very expensive urine for a few weeks). Sorry, just my rant on America's drug laws that make no sense at all.