ulter said:
Law Enforcement IS soft on steroids already. The new laws define steroids more broadly than ever before to include precursors, etc mainly because the IOC is being very vocal in the international community about the fact that PH's are ONLY made in the USA and they can't test for them.
In 2002 the DEA prosecuted less than 100 people for steroid offenses and only half of those went to trial for a conviction. Because it's a lot more out in the open now, largely due to the internet and boards like this one, they are under more pressure to prosecute and convict large dealers. Most of the AS busts are local law enforcement.
I am not saying you don't need to careful. The problems a source faces from federal authorities are really not about AS though. Look at Raupp. He was selling AS for years and federal law enforcement had no interest in him. But when he added K to his list THEN he had their attention.
My problem is that Tom Osbourne and Joe Biden want to increase the penalties as well for steroid posession, distributing, or whathaveyou. THAT is the part of the Bill that really bothers me actually. Who cares about pro-hormones, although I
do feel a person has the right to use them, and that right should be protected. Anyhow, I assumed(perhaps incorrectly), that this Bill would modify the quantities of Steroids needed on the FEDERAL level, which would in turn allow alot more Steroid offenders to fall into the guidelines of MANDITORY MINIMUMS with signifigantly smaller amounts of gear. As you probably know brother, it takes a boatload of Steroids to even register a blip on the Sentencing Guidelines Scale at this time, on the Federal level. I would think(again, perhaps incorrectly), that the fact that a person
does need to be caught with such a HUGE quantity of Steroids, to be a critical factor in why the Feds at least, really don't want to waste their time prosecuting steroid cases. Not when there are scores of Heroin, Coke, and Crack traffickers out there lined up waiting for a 25 year jail sentence, which would look REAL REAL good on any of the Law Enforcement personel involved in the case's resume. Now, if the possibiltiy of giving a person signifigant jailtime became more prevalent in a Steroid case, due to a lowered criteria to actually qualify for manditory minimums, that
could give them more incentive to go after an indictment. I mean, the Feds could probably care less about Pot too, but considering the manditory minimums are pretty serious if you get prosecuted on the Federal level, it is thought to be money well spent more than likely. With the penalties on the Federal level for Steroids being a complete JOKE, I think any DA or Federal Agent would consider a case dealing with them(at this time) to be a waste of funding.
With States leaning more towards cheaper, more effective, and more practical drug policy though, I see a Federal Law to increase the PENALTIES for Steroids of all things, to be completely ludicrous.
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