Thread: Why?..

Originally Posted by OuiSwim

Are AAS like Dianabol illegal? Is there a legitimate reason behind it?

It all started back after the 1988 Olympics when Ben Jonson won gold medals and later tested positive for anabolic steroids (Stanozol) Article

"From 1988 to 1990, congressional hearings were held. Experts convinced lawmakers that steroids delivered a host of damaging effects upon our youth, and Congress caved to their demands. Despite recommendations from most governmental agencies NOT to classify steroids with harder drugs like cocaine and heroin, Congress chose to include it with these hardcore drugs. Anabolic steroids were soon listed a federally scheduled drugs." Source

I hope that helps.

here is the article I referenced above:

A Look Back At The Steroid Control Act of 1990

Did you know that every single existing steroid law is actually based upon the Steroid Control act of 1990? Despite almost twenty years of change to the legal and pharmaceutical landscape, the same laws made two decades today are applied today. The thoughts, debates, and findings of the congress almost twenty years ago affect your ability to obtain steroids today.

In the 1980s, Congress was facing two major issues from soccer mom voters, as well as the media. Professional athletes were using sports in every major sport. It was legal, it was not prohibited in many of these sports, and it allowed athletes and their performances to grow at the same rate as their TV audiences. Big money from sizable ad revenues meant that nobody was complaining. As a result of this professional use, however, athletes in the minor leagues and college athletic programs began using steroids as well. Soon, high school athletes were using them. At this point, concerned parents (driven to near-hysteria by an always-hysterical media) contacted their congressmen, who acted to stop the rampant steroid use.

From 1988 to 1990, congressional hearings were held. Experts convinced lawmakers that steroids delivered a host of damaging effects upon our youth, and Congress caved to their demands. Despite recommendations from most governmental agencies NOT to classify steroids with harder drugs like cocaine and heroin, Congress chose to include it with these hardcore drugs. Anabolic steroids were soon listed a federally scheduled drugs. Being caught with them for personal use or distribution suddenly brought with it a whole host of legal problems. You face just as much prison time for a personal stash of steroids as you do for a pocketful of meth or LSD. Congress voted to classify it as such due to it’s “danger”, even though alcohol and tobacco provide a much higher rate of death per user. However, alcohol and tobacco provide much-needed tax revenue for the government, and lobbyists working on behalf of these firms donate money to causes of the politicians.

As a result of the Steroid Control Act of 1990, the black market has skyrocketed. People whose only crime was to try to be stronger in the gym or look better at 50 are suddenly facing a host of legal issues. Children die each year from counterfeit steroids they buy online from impure sources. Crimes occur that wouldn’t be occurring had steroids been illegal.

The information gap is the biggest obstacle in this case. In 1990, research methods were poor compared to today’s available options. New compounds such as growth hormone, insulin, and igf-1 have arrived on the scene. Testosterone is making the livers of millions of Americans much improved. The law doesn’t recognize these changes in technology and improvements to the lives of citizens. They’d rather a 50-year old man risk purchasing an impure product from China than buy it legally and safely here in America, putting tax dollars back into the US economy. Perhaps that will change with time, as a new generation of educated voters enters the political ranks.

Legal Analysis of Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004

Legal Muscle by Rick Collinsby Rick Collins JD
Collins, McDonald & Gann, P.C.

Rick Collins' book, Legal Muscle, sets the new "gold standard" for sports drug reference manuals. It is the ultimate resource, covering all aspects of non-medical anabolic steroid use under American law. It's essential reading for natural and "juiced" athletes alike, and for coaches, sports trainers, physicians, journalists and anyone in the criminal justice system.
The new federal steroid law has been passed! On October 22, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004, scheduled to take effect 90 days later. The law adds 26 compounds to the existing 1990 list of steroids that are classified as Schedule III controlled substances. Possession of a single andro or other prohormone tablet, for example, will be a federal crime punishable by up to one year in jail; distributing will be a felony punishable by up to five years in prison for a first offense.

The 26 newly added compounds are androstanediol; androstanedione; androstenediol; androstenedione; bolasterone; calusterone; *1-dihydrotestosterone (a.k.a. “1-testosterone”); furazabol; 13b-ethyl-17a-hydroxygon-4-en-3-one; 4-hydroxytestosterone; 4-hydroxy-19-nortestosterone; mestanolone; 17a-methyl-3b,17b-dihydroxy-5a-androstane; 17a-methyl-3a,17b-dihydroxy-5a-androstane; 17a-methyl-3b,17b-dihydroxyandrost-4-ene; 17a-methyl-4-hydroxynandrolone; methyldienolone; methyltrienolone; 17a-methyl-*1-dihydrotestosterone (a.k.a. “17-a-methyl-1-testosterone”); norandrostenediol; norandrostenedione; norbolethone; norclostebol; normethandrolone; stenbolone; and tetrahydrogestrinone. Some of these substances have been marketed as dietary supplements. Others are actually old pharmaceutical steroids that were missed in the original federal law. The law permits the continued sale of DHEA as a dietary supplement.

The law changes the required elements of an anabolic steroid. The “promotes muscle growth” language is now removed from the statute, simplifying the process by which a newly created “designer” steroidal compound may be scheduled by the Attorney General under 21 U.S.C. § 811. No longer must the Attorney General prove that the compound is anabolic. The law also fixes some of the mistakes in the 1990 law (although at least one new typographical error appears). Among other quirks in the new law, the word “isomer” has been removed from the catch-all provision, replaced by “ether.” Instead, the law includes specific isomers of selected compounds.

What can we expect from the new law? The politicians behind it apparently believe that it will curtail steroid use in athletics. While their hopes are well-intentioned, if past experience serves, such hopes seem doubtful. The original 1990 law was pitched to the public as a solution to steroids in sports. However, not only has steroid use by athletes continued, but judging from the unprecedented frenzy over the issue this past year the problem appears much bigger than ever.

Here’s what we can expect: the law will put an end to most legal steroidal dietary supplements, leaving black market steroids as the predominant option. Don’t be surprised if we see a dramatic rise in the use of illegal steroids. In response, expect a newly invigorated anti-steroid enforcement crusade by the DEA. [Even before the President signed the new law, DEA was sounding a war cry. “We are now focused on steroid trafficking and abuse as never before,” warned Michele Leonhart, deputy administrator with DEA, at an October steroids summit in Los Angeles]. Expect individual states to review their own codes in an effort to harmonize their steroid laws with the new federal statute. Once new state laws are enacted, expect state and local police to boost their enforcement efforts against steroid users. As steroid usage is driven further underground, expect the health risks to be compounded as fewer users than ever seek physician monitoring. Finally, expect confusion by consumers and law enforcement authorities alike, because not all prohormone products fall under the new law, nor do all conceivable anabolic steroids.

The backers of this bill say it’s about “values.” But neither the Declaration of Independence nor the U.S. Constitution says anything at all about preserving the “purity” of athletes’ urine. There were alternative means to protect our teens and to prevent sports doping without criminalizing mature, health-conscious American consumers and bringing the War on (Some) Drugs into health food stores. Freedom of choice and personal liberty are the values this nation was founded upon, and don’t let them tell you otherwise.

Suspected steroid users, most specifically adult bodybuilders, have become prime targets for criminal investigation and arrest. But the many thousands of dollars needed in the course of sending federal agents across the country, of conducting interrogations, of serving subpoenas and summonses, of convening grand juries, and of dragging dozens of hapless bodybuilders to testify before those grand juries is a terribly misguided allocation of our hard-earned -- and limited -- tax dollars. Gee, shouldn't the government be dedicating its available resources to finding Osama?"

Legal Analysis of Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 by Rick Collins, Esq

Damn whineing soccer moms, appreciate the info Prince.

Originally Posted by Prince

is a terribly misguided allocation of our hard-earned -- and limited -- tax dollars. Gee, shouldn't the government be dedicating its available resources to finding Osama?"

Well said, and very true.

lol deleted post nice, nice article to