Steroids
Maddi wrote a blog. A great blog, but one that I disagreed with. Am I cowardly or smart?
She’s right. Something should be done. I just don’t necessarily agree that a steroid user speaking out would be the most effective approach. Or maybe I misunderstood her.
Things won’t change until someone (a great mass of “someones”) protests the current insanity. BUT I wouldn’t want to be the first person to take on the current regime. They’ll be cut down like nothing.
Marion Jones is in prison now for doing what the U.S. citizens demanded she do - become a champion for us to be proud of. She had so much natural talent, but then to go against the world’s best - a world’s “best” who are all using gear, how could she not be tempted or coerced into taken similar drugs?
It’s a fine line between supplements and drugs. What’s the difference? It’s semantics. Arnold used back in the day and it was legal. Now the same action is ILLEGAL simply because of a law. Words on paper.
The substances used haven’t changed much, but the legal consequences certainly have. I don’t believe human growth hormone was used as much years ago, but I’m no steroid guru.
Regardless, I don’t think it’s time at all to speak out. Not as an individual who uses (which I’m not). What we need is a spokesperson for sanity who does not use. The Pope? An AIDS or HIV patient? Someone innocent and without an agenda.
April 27, 2008 at 10:09 am
Agreed. An individual comes with the appearance of having something out for personal gain which is easier to turn on when weighing one against the masses. It should be everyone’s choice what they do with their body. People say steroids are harmful. Well, so is tobacco and alcohol, but they’re available anyhow just with a happy little surgeon general’s warning on them. So… why not just slap that on every box the FDA (which is a joke in itself) thinks is harmful, put the risk in the consumer’s hands and focus on getting all the "oops, we didn’t study that long enough" drugs off the market? Right, big Pharma’s agenda… I guess they’re bigger than one bodybuilding athelete, too, huh?
April 28, 2008 at 8:07 am
Another excellant Curtis James Treatise on a topical issue!