Why It's Time To Legalize Steroids In Professional Sports.
Doping in sports is basically using illegal drugs or illegal amounts of legal drugs to enhance the performance of an athlete. Two sports that are highly affected by doping are football and cycling. In football some players use steroids to become bigger and stronger, but in cycling the athletes use performance enhancing drugs that are called anabolic steroids.
A very simple comparison of steroids against all the other legal vices in America, like alcohol and tobacco, as well as numerous over the counter preparations, indicates that steroids, based on a comparative danger to health, should be legal, at least for adult men in good health and under the watchful eye of a doctor.
Steroids could still be banned under league rules for professional sports but should be available recreational, as they were for a long time, to the general public. Steroids are still common, and their criminilaziation only leads to a growth in the black market, as well as the circulation of contaminated steroids being distributed to consumers.
The introduction of the powerful steroid Dianabol (better known as D-bol) to strength sports in the U.S. is a perfect illustration of the real motives behind the implementation of steroids. Dianabol was invented and developed by CIBA Pharmaceuticals Switzerland.
Beyond that, the world of performance-enhancing drugs is much muddier. Take baseball, the sport that made steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) famous, and it becomes clearer why advocates for.
Artificial performance enhancing drugs should be banned from sports because they have bad side-effects. If only some people use them, it gives an unfair advantage. In order to “level the field”, if some people take them, then others will feel pres.
Doping should be allowed in professional sports. Steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs will likely be used by a few athletes regardless of their legal status. This forces them to be secretive about the behavior, and without oversight from a doctor this could be dangerous. If doping was legal and regulated, the behavior would be safer.