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Micky Blacks
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Please stop the criminalization and hysteria over steroids!!
This so called steroid abuse exists only within the context of a legal system in which therapeutic and physical enhancing drugs have been categorized by their potential to help or harm, often arbitrarily and certainly by other people's beliefs.
The net result of this punishing approach to human behavior that people want to look better than they do has been the criminalization of thousands of otherwise decent people, the destruction of families, and the loss of basic freedoms. Not because of the steroids themselves, or their immediate or long-term health consequences, but because of the results of involvement in the criminal justice system created to capture, prosecute and penalize those whose only real crime was using a substance someone else didn't approve of.
It is very easy to argue that more harm than good has occurred over the past years to individuals because of the use of steroids. Millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent. Lives have been destroyed and careers wasted. Whatever may have been the motivation at the time, this attack on steroids has failed utterly to solve that which it intended: To criminalize the use of steroids in America and other countries.
Instead it has helped create a world of secondary crime, where little if any existed before. It has helped create and spawn a police state to deal with offenders. It brought about many underground laboratories, and open thousands of opportunities for unethical or shady con men to profit from these opportunities that have been created by our own government, It’s corrupted the pursuers and the pursued. And there are far more illegal/underground steroids to be used now than ever before, and more people using them.
I hope you will not misunderstand my point. I am not saying that I’m pro-steroid. Ideally, no one would use or have a need to use any drug of any kind, including alcohol and tobacco. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Sooner or later, we all take something for some perceived ailment or pleasure, self-diagnosed or medically-diagnosed; acute, chronic or potentially fatal. That "something" may be legal or illegal, prescription or over-the-counter, pharmaceutical or herb, used to treat disease, relieve symptoms, alleviate pain, lessen mental duress, or just to look better.
Some “very few” people use steroids to get the athletic edge because they hope to sign that multi million dollar baseball contact, most use just to look and feel better about them selves.
Everyone ultimately is trying to feel and look better than they may otherwise be.
Trying to look better is not immoral, nor should it be illegal. Doing so and hurting others in the process is a different story altogether. Kids doing steroids is also another story.
If the issue of operations raw deal and gear grinder is to shut down steroid labs, we need to ask a real basic question: "Why would anyone want to produce anything commercially?" The answer is very simple “Because there is a profit to be made” However steroids being illegal creates a black market for that item and hence an unnatural and inflated profit that would not otherwise exist.
We have learned to accept alcohol and tobacco, with certain use limitations, despite knowing their terrible risks, thus avoiding the added calamities of illegality. Placing consumption taxes on them helps add to the public coffers.
When an item must be purchased outside of legal markets, these funds are lost to society. Its price will have little to do with its true value, its production cost, or even its availability. The law of supply and demand will still prevail, but in a perverted way. In particular, as long as steroids are illegal anywhere, its price and profitability will flourish, and there will be many who will want to join in.
Let's allow our criminal justice system to put its resources to work on those who truly hurt others and society by their lying, cheating, stealing, maiming and killing. Those are the things we must have protection from. Let's reallocate those funds and energies away from criminality, punishment and incarceration of steroid offenders, and towards education instead.
Save the jails for those who really do harm!
The criminalization of steroids is a bust, as was Prohibition.
It’s time to put pen to paper and wright the very people who make these insane laws against our most basic freedom “the one to choose what we do to our own body”
For my brother who currently sits in US prison for steroids
Peace
This so called steroid abuse exists only within the context of a legal system in which therapeutic and physical enhancing drugs have been categorized by their potential to help or harm, often arbitrarily and certainly by other people's beliefs.
The net result of this punishing approach to human behavior that people want to look better than they do has been the criminalization of thousands of otherwise decent people, the destruction of families, and the loss of basic freedoms. Not because of the steroids themselves, or their immediate or long-term health consequences, but because of the results of involvement in the criminal justice system created to capture, prosecute and penalize those whose only real crime was using a substance someone else didn't approve of.
It is very easy to argue that more harm than good has occurred over the past years to individuals because of the use of steroids. Millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent. Lives have been destroyed and careers wasted. Whatever may have been the motivation at the time, this attack on steroids has failed utterly to solve that which it intended: To criminalize the use of steroids in America and other countries.
Instead it has helped create a world of secondary crime, where little if any existed before. It has helped create and spawn a police state to deal with offenders. It brought about many underground laboratories, and open thousands of opportunities for unethical or shady con men to profit from these opportunities that have been created by our own government, It’s corrupted the pursuers and the pursued. And there are far more illegal/underground steroids to be used now than ever before, and more people using them.
I hope you will not misunderstand my point. I am not saying that I’m pro-steroid. Ideally, no one would use or have a need to use any drug of any kind, including alcohol and tobacco. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Sooner or later, we all take something for some perceived ailment or pleasure, self-diagnosed or medically-diagnosed; acute, chronic or potentially fatal. That "something" may be legal or illegal, prescription or over-the-counter, pharmaceutical or herb, used to treat disease, relieve symptoms, alleviate pain, lessen mental duress, or just to look better.
Some “very few” people use steroids to get the athletic edge because they hope to sign that multi million dollar baseball contact, most use just to look and feel better about them selves.
Everyone ultimately is trying to feel and look better than they may otherwise be.
Trying to look better is not immoral, nor should it be illegal. Doing so and hurting others in the process is a different story altogether. Kids doing steroids is also another story.
If the issue of operations raw deal and gear grinder is to shut down steroid labs, we need to ask a real basic question: "Why would anyone want to produce anything commercially?" The answer is very simple “Because there is a profit to be made” However steroids being illegal creates a black market for that item and hence an unnatural and inflated profit that would not otherwise exist.
We have learned to accept alcohol and tobacco, with certain use limitations, despite knowing their terrible risks, thus avoiding the added calamities of illegality. Placing consumption taxes on them helps add to the public coffers.
When an item must be purchased outside of legal markets, these funds are lost to society. Its price will have little to do with its true value, its production cost, or even its availability. The law of supply and demand will still prevail, but in a perverted way. In particular, as long as steroids are illegal anywhere, its price and profitability will flourish, and there will be many who will want to join in.
Let's allow our criminal justice system to put its resources to work on those who truly hurt others and society by their lying, cheating, stealing, maiming and killing. Those are the things we must have protection from. Let's reallocate those funds and energies away from criminality, punishment and incarceration of steroid offenders, and towards education instead.
Save the jails for those who really do harm!
The criminalization of steroids is a bust, as was Prohibition.
It’s time to put pen to paper and wright the very people who make these insane laws against our most basic freedom “the one to choose what we do to our own body”
For my brother who currently sits in US prison for steroids
Peace
