Ska steroider legaliseras?

What Happens When Steroids Are Legal

I live in Mexico where steroids are legal. Guess what. Mexico doesn’t have a steroid problem. In fact, the issue doesn’t even raise an eyebrow.

Anyone, including a 15 year-old soccer player, can walk into a pharmacy, go right up to the counter, ask for preloaded ready-jects of Sustanon 250 and Deca, pay his 500-some-odd pesos and walk out, just as if he’d purchased pink sugar cookies and a bottle of Gatorade. No problem.

And, oddly, the news reports in Mexico are barren of anyone dying from steroids. No teens are committing suicide. Sports are not rife with cheaters and allegations of malfeasance. Parent groups aren’t up in arms demanding legislation. There’s nobody testifying in front of congress blaming juiced professional athletes for their son’s alleged steroid-induced suicide (more on that character in a minute).


Meanwhile, In America….

Contrast this with America, a country just a porous line in the sand away from Mexico, where steroids are an illegal, Schedule III drug, and where congressmen have declared a “national public health crisis” because livers are rotting, kidneys are failing, cancer is rampant, teens are hanging themselves, and otherwise normal people go into psychotic episodes that end in madness, mayhem, murder and death. Sports stars are falling in disgrace, the great American pastime’s record books are littered with asterisks, and the children, our precious pioneers of tomorrow, are in imminent and grave peril.

Interesting contrast. The American media has actually given steroids cognitive powers. On one hand, they’re reported to be a miracle cure for muscle-wasting diseases, hypogonadism, and burn victims. They prolong the quality of life for AIDS patients, they combat aging, build muscle, burn fat, and increase performance both on the playing field and in the bedroom.


Steroids Are Safer Than Tylenol


You may be thinking, steroids are illegal because they’re dangerous! Really? Compared to what? Swallow a bottle of Tylenol and see what happens. Swallow a bottle of Vitamin C and see what happens. Drink three gallons of water in a single sitting and see what happens.

Inject an entire 10 cc bottle of testosterone and you know what’ll happen? You might get a headache. MIGHT. Inject an entire bottle of testosterone every day for a week and you know what will happen? You’ll probably add 15 pounds to your bench, your bad cholesterol might go up a little, and you’ll probably hold a little water.



What the Law Says

In spite of that reality, 25 years ago the “Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990” was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush, adding anabolic steroids to Schedule III of the DEA’s list of controlled substances. Scheduling a drug means categorizing it based upon its risks, thus making it an illegal controlled substance. A Schedule I drug is the most dangerous and Schedule V is the least.

Subsequently, in 2004, the law was amended to add prohormones and other “steroid like” compounds to the category, thus criminalizing anything that even remotely resembles testosterone, its derivatives, or its effects.

Later, the US Sentencing Commission reconvened to raise steroid penalties to the shameful degree that today, in America – not North Korea – it’s entirely possible to be sentenced to 30 years in prison and fined up to $5,000,000 for the possession and distribution (or importation) of testosterone. That’s not a misstatement of fact. While sentences rarely hit the top of the guidelines, the aforementioned is indeed the top.


Joe Biden

The Government Broke The Law

Years ago a future vice-president named Joe Biden and his crony Dan Lungren bulldozed their steroid control act through Congress, usurping almost every single qualification to schedule a drug. I’ve detailed this process before but the first reason steroids should be legal is that they were criminalized ILLEGALLY in the first place, for reasons that don’t make any sense.


  1. Its actual or relative potential for abuse.
  2. Scientific evidence of its pharmacological effect, if known.
  3. The state of current scientific knowledge regarding the drug.
  4. Its history or current pattern of abuse.
  5. The scope, duration, and significance of abuse.
  7. Its psychic or physiological dependence liability.







Roid Rage, Sports Lobbyists, and Instant Criminals

Dr. Kashin testified that “steroid use can cause an addiction with similarities to alcohol, opiate, and cocaine addiction.” (Weird, alcohol is legal.) He also talked about “dangerous criminal-like behavior while intoxicated on anabolic steroids” and individuals who have “lost control of their behavior,” or “became violent.” Basically a page from the script of Reefer Madness.

Based on his bogus testimony, and his alone, Biden and Lungren were able cast aside all the other experts’ testimonies, literally hundreds of pages of Congressional transcript, and usurp the law of the land rendering the recommendation of the Secretary of the DHHS null and void. They broke the law to push forward their political agenda. Imagine that.

What was their agenda? It basically had to do with pressure by the sports lobby to stifle the flow of black market steroids to athletes and to preserve the fairytale of the “even playing field” after several years of reports of PED use in college and Olympic sports.

The pressure really built in the wake of the 1988 summer Olympics, when Canadian Ben Johnson, who streaked down the 100 in an inhuman 9.76 seconds, took the gold medal away from America’s darling Carl Lewis, and then got busted for cheating by testing positive for Winstrol. Now the politicians’ solution had the problem it needed and pushed the Steroid Control Act through Congress.


Virtually none of them have been Olympic athletes or other pro athletes. They’re not cheating in sports; they’re not even playing sports. But they’re the ones being dragged through the system by a law that was never intended for them.

How Liars Deceived the Public


Example One: Chris Benoit

Chris Benoit



So what was the first thing the media trumpeted as the cause of this tragedy? Here’s a hint, it wasn’t the alcohol, the Xanax, the hydrocodone, a combination thereof, or the numerous chair shots to the back of the head.


Not Xanax, not hydrocodone, not alcohol, not combining them, not the head trauma… just steroids. Statistically, the least probable of all the possible causes.

Example Two: Taylor Hooton

This is how the politicians get their traction for a cause: they give it a face. Here’s the most famous and most egregious case.


Donald Hooton

During these hearings, testimony was heard from Donald Hooton. A month after his 17th birthday, his son, Taylor, hung himself in his bedroom. His parents and a doctor familiar with the case said they believe that Taylor’s death was related to depression brought on when Taylor “discontinued the use of anabolic steroids.”

His doctors said that the sense of euphoria and aggression that accompany the use of steroids can be replaced by “lethargy, loss of confidence, melancholy and hopelessness when a person stops using performance-enhancing drugs.”

“It’s a pretty strong case that he was withdrawing from steroids and his suicide was directly related to that,” said Dr. Larry W. Gibbons, president and medical director of the Cooper Aerobics Center. “This is a kid who was well liked, had a lot good friends, no serious emotional problems. He had a bright future.”





Scientific Reality


There is simply no real scientific proof to support anything else. And while it can be said that science does not prove negatives and that any long-term studies using supra-pharmacological doses of gear would be unethical, I’d like to point out a few things science does tell us.

What DOES the Data Tell Us?

The data consistently points out that steroid users are not the typical “drug addicts” on society’s fringe, but rather ordinary, productive people.



As for health consequences among the respondents, “the adverse effects, over a 15 year span, appear to be minor and benign, and are exactly what you would expect for androgenic drugs.”

Ultimately, Criminalization Failed


“When anabolic steroids were classified as controlled substances 25 years ago, the objective of Congress was to crack down on the drugs’ black market and get steroids out of sports. How’d that work out? About like Titanic’s maiden voyage. As in prohibition, legitimacy – doctors and Big Pharma in this case – were driven out, while the black market exploded and doping pervaded sports.


So, should steroids be legal? What do you Think?


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