Possible Benefits Of Steroids Legalization
If each of us has the freedom of choice to take the risks we wish to endure. Shouldn’t professional athletes have the freedom to do so just like the rest of us? Steroids are used by professionals to boost their performance and to help their body muscles increase in size and strengthen by feeding them with the supplements they need. These drugs are amongst the world’s most controversial drugs. Legalizing Performance enhancing drug would lift the bar to unimaginable heights and open up a whole new level of competition if professional athletes were allowed to use them. Picture home runs hit over a mile, 50 meter screamers in football and 8-meter-long jumps in the Olympics, sports would become almost magic. Many people claim that legalizing performance enhancing would lead to health risks, unfair advantage and misuse by the public. In fact, it can have a positive impact by reducing injuries, creating more record-breaking opportunities and revenue. The use of anabolic steroids to achieve such magnificent records has its side effects on the human body.
In the late 1900’s, Idolized sport celebrities like Barry bonds and Mark McGwire were the heroes of our childhood, In the prime of their careers they broke most of the records in the beautiful game of baseball, as well as being able to break the fifty-home run mark during a single season. That period was when professional sports hit its peak in terms of numbers. Sport fans want to see more impressive numbers and statistics over time and these numbers don’t come without a cost. These legends lived a long and healthy life even with the use of performance enhancing drugs, Mark McGwire is still alive and well and so as the thousands of athletes that have chosen to use steroids. There is a wide array of side effects associated with the abuse and misuse of anabolic steroids. In fact, PEDs cause minimal health side effects that can easily be avoided or prevented when under the supervision and care of a specialist or a doctor. High dosages of steroids use can alter the normal hormonal production in the body. However, the controversy lies in different sorts of drugs.
Tobacco and alcohol kill more people every year than steroids could in ten years and they’re completely legalized. The claim that the ban on steroids is justified by the concern for athletes is not only paternalistic without justification, but disingenuous. According to Hoffman “No cysts or tumors have been reported in athletes using 17β-alkylated steroids. Thus, evidence appears to indicate that the risk of disease from anabolic steroid use may not be as high as the medical community had originally thought although a risk does exist especially with oral anabolic steroid use or abuse”. In addition, different sources confirm that anabolic can help people with injuries and increase the recovery process.
Steroids are naturally produced by our body in the form of hormones. The most prominent from of steroid in human body is Testosterone. The steroids taken by sportsmen are called anabolic-androgen steroids which are used to treat inflammation and to speed up the body's natural muscle-building process. PEDs should not be illegal but controlled instead. Controlling anabolic steroids would make it accessible for athletes and people in need of it.
Control
The world has been fighting a losing war against steroids by banning them. The imports of a country are endless, and people always find a way to misuse something. Controlling the drug production and distribution is crucial for it to stay in the right hand. Authorities got involved with our national sports athletes, who chose to dedicate their lives to entertain us, under the guise of "how they influence the children". Steroids impact on children would be catastrophic. The minimal side effects steroids have on adults could lead to serious outcomes and even death for minors. Authorities have the power to control PED’s and abolish the black market to prevent misuse. According to Lukas “Over 400 million dollars per year is spent on steroids and other sports drugs in the black market”. By legalizing steroids, the demand on the black market for steroids would end, and the price of steroids would be competitive. The elimination of the black market would put an end to all the cheap, despicable and rip off drugs that is used illegally. Picture a world where athletes can go to a doctor and request steroids where he will be able to assist them. Under supervision and with proper PCT everything will be perfectly fine and athletes will be able to turn sports back into magic like it always has been. Government regulated performance enhancing drugs will create a safe and fierce competitiveness for the sports world. But would it give steroid users an unfair advantage?
Unfair advantage
Athletes have been trying to gain advantage since the dawn of athletic competition. According to time magazine “The ancient Greeks popped sesame seeds and hallucinogenic mushrooms before athletics contests; Roman gladiators used stimulants to get an edge. Today's drug of choice, anabolic steroids. Many of us share the intuition that use of performance enhancers provides an unfair advantage, but we need to ask whether this intuition can be supported by evidence. There is no coherent argument to support the view that enhancing performance is unfair. Due to economic circumstances or even luck, some athletes have better nutrition, 'natural' supplements, coaches, trainers, nutritionists, information, lawyers, and equipment than others do and that doesn’t give them a fair advantage.
