Illinois first state to BAN EPHEDRA

[FatRat]

This makes me mad, it was the same when they wanted to ban Creatine over here. Some kid has no idea about what or why he is taking it, or what it does to his body, but then pushes his body to the limit, doesn’t eat, gets dehydrated, probably uses a sweat suit to make a weight class, and uses the “more is better” theory for dosing.

I notice the deaths in the story posted by Heavywear refer to death by heat stroke, not directly by the substance taken. Steps may need to be taken to avoid abuse by the ill informed, but why do authorities continually have to take away the freedom of choice for informed users?

 

[WarriorPL]

The chain reeaction will soon begin.

 

[Lord_Suston]

it disgust me

when the laws are voted on by the uniformed and moronic masses out there who don't understand anything about biochemistry, yet they vote upon things they can never truly understand.

Just put a disclaimer on everything and let the idiots who have no self-control drop dead

 

[blinddeafmute]

I agree lord, its a good way to weed out the stupid.

I personally will not take it because of history of heart problems in my family. I have a murmor myself and am personally afraid of it.

I also dont smoke pot (anymore) but think it is perfectly ok to be a legal substance. I also have researched the uses of hemp and it really needs to be grown here.

You can get the same amount of paper from 1 acre of hemp as you can from 7 acres of pine trees, and the hemp grows back anually. Imagine how many trees you could save.

I havent researched ephedra to the same extreme, but I have the same opinion of it. Let the people decide if they want to take it. I personally cant stand victimless crimes.

FIGHT THE POWER!!!

 

[The Red Dragon]

I hate it when ridiculous things like this happens. Just cuz 1 person doesn't know how to use it doesn't mean that everyone else has to suffer.

 

[casualbb]

Seriously...those deaths that the FDA used as a case against ephedrine, they couldn't even establish ephedrine as clear cause of death.

Like one kid, they found him with his head in a trash bag. Immediately the autopsy report blames ephedrine for the death. Nobody thought to say "Hmm, head in a trash bag? Maybe he suffocated!"

Basically it's a knee-jerk campaign to kill the drug. Nobody's actually informed.

-casual

 

[BodybuildingUniverse]

"a knee-jerk campaign to kill the drug"

agreed.

 

[argent]

Knee jerk is right. Ii just don't understand how things like this go through. Logic is lost to politicians.

 

[IJ26]

Its complete bullshit. You get kids and people who are fat and out of shape misusing products and then those who actually use it correctly have to suffer.

 

[casualbb]

Logic is lost to politicians.

Well, politicians represent their constituents. Think of how stupid the average person is...half of the world is dumber than that!

They're basically doing it so that random soccer mom can go "Good, stop all the deaths. Who ever said that government didn't do anything?"

-casual