Massachussetts seeks to toughen steroid laws

[Rick Collins]

Massachusetts seeks to toughen steroid laws

FYI to our friends in Massachusetts:

Citing increased use among high schoolers, the Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill to upgrade anabolic steroids from Class E controlled substances to Class C substances. The effect on first-time personal users is to double the potential imprisonment term from six months to one year, and to make inapplicable a provision presuming probation. Here's what the State House News Service had to say about it:

http://www.legalmusclebooks.com/page.php?pageID=8

Stay strong,
Rick Collins

 

[Spidey]

Just one more reason I will never move to MA.

 

[manny78]

Wow..... aren't there any other priorities ? Do these people know they actually look like a bunch of fools ? If one could explain to me the logic behind, I'd be thankful...

 

[ROID WARRIOR]

I saw an interesting program on autopsies on HBO a few nights ago. The show closed with an interesting point: According to pathologist Michael Baden, MD, as much as 40% of all unnnatural deaths are attributed to alcohol. In fact, he performed an autopsy on a young man throughout the course of the program. The cause of death at the conclusion was that he had been drinking, vomited and aspirated stomach contents into his lungs.

According to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, quoted in yesterday's Wall Street Journal cover story about alcohol abuse at FSU, alcohol costs 54 billion dollars each year from death, bodily injury and poperty damage.

Yet, because of some arbitrary, man-made notion, alcohol remains legal.

RW

 

[manny78]

I saw an interesting program on autopsies on HBO a few nights ago. The show closed with an interesting point: According to pathologist Michael Baden, MD, as much as 40% of all unnnatural deaths are attributed to alcohol. In fact, he performed an autopsy on a young man throughout the course of the program. The cause of death at the conclusion was that he had been drinking, vomited and aspirated stomach contents into his lungs.

According to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, quoted in yesterday's Wall Street Journal cover story about alcohol abuse at FSU, alcohol costs 54 billion dollars each year from death, bodily injury and poperty damage.

Yet, because of some arbitrary, man-made notion, alcohol remains legal.

RW

Remember last time they made it illegal, it turned into a big mess. Drug War is actually the modern version of the Prohibition. The only difference being there's no Elliot Ness with a Tommy Gun shooting at a bunch of alcohol smugglers. You rather have some "civilized" DEA agents busting some small pushers.....

 

[ROID WARRIOR]

Perhaps I was too obtuse. I suggested the foregoing to illustrate the societal cost, which is apparently an acceptable cost as far as our legislators are concerned.

RW

 

[Hacksquats]

Yea its Ironic that Juice helped me quit drinking. I was a friggin terror on the road, destructive to my friends and family. Now I'm a content productive person, with confidence, poise and direction. These idiot polititicians are fueling their carreers on the shattered lives of the people they prosecute and destroy.

 

[liftshard]

RW...I've seen data in the past which implicated alcohol in 86% of all homicides. It's massively implicated in automobile fatalities, injuries, and accidents, as well as in domestic violence, assault, and every other violent crime.

Yet, they have ads for it on television. If everybody who was drinking was toking instead, there'd be a lot less violence around. Alcohol consumption is a MASSIVE drain on society; I expect that the alco industry will be the next major class action lawsuit target, after the tobacco and gun industries. In this case, the "states" really do have a point, even a better one than with cigarettes. Smokers really died no more expensively than nonsmokers, just earlier. People on alcohol cause massive car crashes and take other people with them or send them to the grave before they're even finished. They're doubling and tripling the cost of death and foisting that burden off onto others.

This is why I say legalize drugs, because alcohol is among the WORST drugs in terms of its side effects and tobacco (nicotine) is more addictive than narcotics - nicotine is the MOST addictive drug known.

If these facts don't convince someone that our drug policy is assbackwards, then what could? And, I think you meant "abstruse," not "obtuse."

 

[Rick Collins]

Few people are aware that in the late 1980s a federal law was passed to permit prosecuting steroid dealers WITHOUT making AAS into controlled substances. Numerous AAS dealers were successfully prosecuted by the Feds without criminalizing the end user. The sorry story about how special interests hijacked the congressional process and criminalized AAS in 1990 over the advice of the DEA, FDA and AMA makes me furious!

 

[ROID WARRIOR]

Uh, no, I meant obtuse. But thanks for playing.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary "Obtuse b: difficult to comprehend: not clear or precise in thought or expression" www.webster.com


RW