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There was an HBO special on this issue a few years ago. Only 6 or so reported deaths out of millions of users. That to me, sounds like the safest drug in the whole world. Aspirin kills hundreds every year!

The reasons the Brits legalized steroids was because they said it was nearly impossible to harm yourself with it. I read that statement in the law myself. The reason everyone jumps on this bandwagon in this country, is because of the media. People simply refuse to believe our government has become as oppressive as it has, so they legitimize the government by pretending they are just trying to help us and that its laws are indeed righteous.

BTW, the state laws vary dramatically. In my state, it's just a class C misdemeanor, even for selling it. Some states, it's not even controlled at all.

That bodybuilder posted above died from one of the many other drugs, not steroids. Yes, he took all sorts of shit. Ironically, probably the safest thing he was using is the steroids. I read a study somewhere that showed there's been more teen-aged girls die in cheer-leading practice, than there has been men who died from steroids. Maybe we should outlaw cheer-leading? And of course, the sports themselves are way dangerous. That's why I never played football. I value my health too much.

The media again, I have to say, they lie all the time. Just like when this baseball player who was notorious for admitting he did steroids died. The media, even though they knew he died from Cocaine overdose, they reported it in this headline, "Admitted steroid user dies of heart attach". Technically, I guess that's the truth. But a half truth at that. Or let's say some steroid user gets into a fight, the media will report it as if the steroids caused the fight. Or if someone kills someone and that person was on steroids. The truth is, steroid users have a lower incidents of all this behavior! I know dozens of them, and none of these men have ever once done any of this. Steroid users also get cancer at a much lower rate than non-users. But that doesn't mean it's a cure for cancer. Lyle Alzado still got cancer, but the media made it sound as if it was the cause. He died from AIDS. He had AIDS and the brain cancer he developed was specific to AIDS.

I think one of the biggest reason for all this which hunt shit is not even that people are deceived. I think at the end of the day, what it boils down to is men are jealous. That, plus women here have become very picky, and this has caused men to start fighting over women. The skinny guy who can't get a girl, knows that he will now look even skinnier when there's a bunch of juice heads running around. So he is of course anti-juice head. In a sense, he has a point too. But I think the answer is for hetro men to stop fighting over women and stop trying to cut the balls out from under the other men around, and instead call these American women on their shallowness. American men need to start being men again. To me it seems they lack a sense of security in themselves. When I went to Ukraine last year, it was so nice to be around men who didn't glare at me with hatred. See, over there, noone one thinks men should be held down like they do in the West. Men there, and women too, celebrate masculinity. Here, it's as if they try to deny it. We have become a society of meterosexuals and politically correct.

The thing with sports is, its not as if these guys are natural their whole life, and then as soon as they get into the major leagues they get on gear. The truth is, they would have never gotten into the major leagues in the first place without it. So do they come off when they get there? Maybe. Maybe not. But if some of them don't, then that's a disadvantage to the others. So they use it because they know others are.

I think the people who decide these things felt that sports fans wanted to see more homeruns and huge people jumping 30 ft etc. The truth is that for me at least this ruined sports. How do I relate to a multimillionare drug(Steroid) abuser?

Were fans of the 50's 40's 30's etc uninterested because their favorite stars didn't look like He-Man or Lex Lugar? Speaking of wrestling how many remember the pre steroid era? Were these guys loved and hated any less then these steroid injected monsters we see now?

Does the new steroid powered home runs record really mean anything? Only if you take all the previous players who didn't use them and say "you stupid suckers. You could have cheated and done much better then us!"

And cheating is what this really comes down to. A true sportsman would never condone this and what? Someone said 90% of these guys were doing it at one time? How sad. I think this speaks to the amount of money they people make to play the game which I think temps a lot of people. Its now to the point that its just insane.

I don't know how "safe" abusing steroids are but I do think its totally unfair to have some people misuse them and others not.