Should Performance Enhancing Drugs be made legal to use in sports?

[Cricketics]

Added poll too guys. Vote away

[Cricketics]

10 minutes ago, MCcricket said:

I don't believe any performance enhancer like steroid, Male hormones is good and causes multiple problems n premature death, also steroids enlarges the heart n rhythm ,changes your behavior, but on th

Exactly, and hence making them legal doesn't help as we are going to be having a generation where kids at young age will be going crazy for such things and will mess up their health. There is no one for guidance when you are literally hunting this stuff. 

[Cricketics]

7 minutes ago, Viper said:

How much weed you on mate before opening this post ? 

 

Its like saying steroids should be legal for bodybuilding contests

There was a heavy discussion going on in other thread so I merged all those posts here in a new thread since we were going way of track there. 

 

Op and few more werre passionate about the topic so here it is. 

 

 

 

[Cricketics]

So just saw this on tv and realized how people with PEDs would act and behave once they all start taking.

 

If you want to walk in the park doing this, please take PEDs

[rkt.india]

40 minutes ago, Viper said:

How much weed you on mate before opening this post ? 

 

Its like saying steroids should be legal for bodybuilding contests

yes, steroids already legal in body building. very top bodybuilder takes them. Look at Arnold who is 69 years old and has taken anabolic steroids all bodybuilding years. Same with other famous bodybuilders.

[rkt.india]

57 minutes ago, Cricketics said:

If they are dangerous then why you want to make them legal. You know kids won't look for guidance. They will just fo hunting for it.

 

because every drug you take is dangerous if taken out of proportion. Even water is dangerous and can do  hyperhydration.

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Rkt is spending too much time on the green forum.They want ball tampering legalised so that their Phaast bowlers can be effective again.Rkt wants PEDs legalised.

[Forever Indian]

There are too many disadvantages of Steriods. Please go through the side effects of long term steroid use some of which are osteoporosis (thinning of bones), high risk of liver disease & liver cancer, high cholesterol, high BP, some may become infertile to name a few. There is a reason Steroids are prescription drugs.

 

Also women should not be taking steriods as they are very bad for them making them develop masculine features and infertility in long run. If only men are to use steroids then the performance level between men  and women sports will even widen further which could lead to losing interest in women sports.

Edited February 17, 2017 by Forever Indian

[BCCI]

I admire the confidence with which OP is championing a completely lunatic proposal. 

[Cricketics]

How does that help the younger generation who won't have clue and any idea of how it will effect their health? 

 

Youth nature is such that they do not like to be guided, they do their own way. How will they take out of proportion?

 

There will be a culture developing among the kids to try different substances. 

54 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

because every drug you take is dangerous if taken out of proportion. Even water is dangerous and can do  hyperhydration.

 

[Forever Indian]

1 hour ago, rkt.india said:

yes, steroids already legal in body building. very top bodybuilder takes them. Look at Arnold who is 69 years old and has taken anabolic steroids all bodybuilding years. Same with other famous bodybuilders.

Please read through what Arnold himself has to say about Steroid use:

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Larry King that his use of steroids as a bodybuilding competitor was “stupid” and he “didn’t know any better” at the time on CNN’s “Larry King Live” (August 10, 2003):

I did, yes. But I mean, there was in a time in the late 60s It was stupid, because it was in the late 60s, early 70s when we didn’t know any better.

Anything when you want to be a champion, you use anything that comes around. If it is food supplements, if it is a tanning booth that is a new idea to get brown, or – the steroids came around at that time, so we tried that.

But then in the late 70s and in the early 80s, research was done and you found out that it’s actually damaging, that it causes side effects and it is bad for your health.

And now, of course, I’m traveling around the country telling all the high school kids, don’t take steroids. Don’t take any drugs, because I’m totally anti-drugs, because drugs are only for a temporary kind of a situation.

You get a temporary – you get strength maybe a little bit more, energy a little bit more, a high, or whatever is – but only temporary, not permanent.

What we have to work towards is permanent strength, permanent endurance, a permanent high. And that is – the only way you can do that, if you train hard, the harder you train the better you get. The more you work on your mind – the discipline, the dedication and those things – the better you will get and the longer it will last.

So, no drugs. No drugs.

 

 

You can see full details in this link: https://thinksteroids.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-transformation-from-steroid-user-to-anti-steroid-politician/

[Forever Indian]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is against any new steroid laws because he believes the current steroid laws are “solid and sound” (“Schwarzenegger urges crackdown on steroid use,” March 6, 2005):

“It has nothing to do with that we don’t have enough laws, because we already have a very solid and sound law that says you’re not allowed to take illegal drugs.”

 

https://thinksteroids.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-transformation-from-steroid-user-to-anti-steroid-politician/

 

[rkt.india]

I will again say excessive use of anything is dangerous and harmful for body. Even steroids are not bad if taken in controlled guidance.

[rkt.india]

The first thing that we need to understand is that steroids are drugs. Even Tylenol and Aspirin can cause serious problems if you take them in large quantities. All drugs when misused and abused have the potential to kill; it’s not only steroids.

[Cricketics]

3 hours ago, rkt.india said:

The first thing that we need to understand is that steroids are drugs. Even Tylenol and Aspirin can cause serious problems if you take them in large quantities. All drugs when misused and abused have the potential to kill; it’s not only steroids.

Everyone knows that. We are clearly discussing here about performance enhancing drugs so don't know where you got  tylenol and disprin and planocough amd Dayquil/Nyquil from.

 

 

 

[maniac]

So you want the Athletes to kill themselves to excel in the sport for your entertainment?

 

Baseball,NFL and even fake sport like WWE have suffered with 40 year olds dropping dead from steroid abuse.

[maniac]

3 hours ago, rkt.india said:

The first thing that we need to understand is that steroids are drugs. Even Tylenol and Aspirin can cause serious problems if you take them in large quantities. All drugs when misused and abused have the potential to kill; it’s not only steroids.

How would you monitor the dosage and regulate?

 

Sure Pain Killers and Steroids are used as medical "treatment" because they help with the healing but they have addictive properties and are known to be fatal....so let us say an athlete especially in cricket where a long career is desirable,wants to sustain his performances over say a 15 year career...don't you think it will be a challenge to prevent him from getting addicted and avoiding the side-effects?

 

This theory is not possible for a lot of reasons apart from ethics etc.

 

Now let us say a player takes a shortcut in one odd game what is the guarantee that it won't set a wrong precedent for others to start abusing it?

 

 

 

[Cricketics]

11 minutes ago, maniac said:

So you want the Athletes to kill themselves to excel in the sport for your entertainment?

 

Baseball,NFL and even fake sport like WWE have suffered with 40 year olds dropping dead from steroid abuse.

I think i know why some peole think the way the think about PEDs be made legal. The problem is with some people and sportsmen who go to gym a lot and go so overboard that they start thinking about getting results soon and that they feel the urge to improve their performance and instead of doing the extra mile of hard-work they rely on these ways.

You can see the history of sportsmen, most have been crazy fitness freaks.

 

People need curb their enthusiasm about this whole thing.

[kruiser]

Along with Bottle caps? Going by the same logic since everyone will have equal access to them

[kruiser]

Sport is a competition of human skills, endurance and ability. Not a race between the scientists of various nations to develop the most potent drug.