This is a complicated issue. Some steroids are actually already legal in the US, you just need a script. Hypothetically, if steroids were legal in the US they would be pharma grade sold where?
Within pharmacies and doctor’s offices just as it was prior to Joe Biden's Steroid Control Act of 1990, not to mention its 1994 update.
Let's say they were sold in a pharmacy and you could walk in and buy them. It would still have to be regulated in some way because they are too powerful to be sold over the counter.
Yes of course it would still have to be regulated - rather vigorously, in fact, and I don’t think that anyone other than an objectivist would argue otherwise, certainly not I.
But let's assume this pipe dream came true and steroids were totally legal. They would be extremely expensive and stuff like tren, primo, EQ, etc. which are not pharm grade legal in the US would still have to be acquired illegally on the underground market. so essentially it would not help anything. we would STILL buy our gear underground anyway…
Yes, for a time - post-prohibition, we would still be compelled to purchase the likes of tren’ and EQ illegally. But I think that the re-legalization of AAS and AS would lead to a sociopolitical climate that would eventually bring forth the legalization of tren’, primo’, EQ, etc. as well. And we are already beginning to see the establishment of the pre-political foundations for such a sociopolitical climate. Here in California, for example, an initiative has been proposed that would, if approved by voters, legalize psychedelic mushrooms and, in time, other hallucinogens. So, just as the slow but steady legalization of marijuana and other cannabis derivatives is, in turn, leading to at least the decriminalization of psychedelics, so too would the legalization of test’ and, say, anavar lead to the eventual decriminalization and possibly the legalization of the likes of tren’.
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...itiative-would-legalize-psychedelic-mushrooms &
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-psychedelic-drugs-should-be-legalized-2016-6
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QUOTE=stevesmi;908332]Why pay 5X the price for ripoff pharm' grade gear?[/QUOTE]
But within a post-prohibtion-world steroids would be made available by way of a physician’s prescription; prescriptions that would be largely paid for by insurance providers. Hell, in view of my policy’s zero deductibles and zero copays, I wouldn’t have to pay a dime for gear.
...And now you are missing some of the best steroids like primo, EQ, and tren. those are 3 of my favorites and i would not be able to buy them anymore anyway.
See above.
Look at Viagra. If I go to a doc' and get a script and take it to the pharmacy and get it legally, it would cost me a fortune.
Yes. But, aside from the often successful argument that a healthy sex like is essential to good health, which often leads to Viagra being made available free of charge or nearly so, arguments toward the medical necessity of steroids could also be employed (i.e., anti-aging).
Yet I can buy it from ag-guys as a research chemical or from an Indian pharmacy with no script and pay 1/5th the price.
Very well. But I like the idea of using pharma-grade gear that I know for a fact was manufactured within a sterile and well-regualted environment. I am quite satisfied with the UG gear that I use (Geneza Pharmaceuticals), but I know perfectly well that it is manufactured in Moldova and by “God"-knows-who, not within a sterile and well-regulated laboratory in Geneza, Switzerland.
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So, in the end, even though Viagra is legal in the US, we still acquire it other ways anyway. These are drugs that cost very little to produce yet the pharma' companies jack up the prices to fuck us over. Imagine what US pharma' companies will do to steroid prices.
There again, logically speaking, the re-leagalization of anabolic steroids would very likely lead to an arrangement in which insurance providers would cover the loin’s share of such costs.
So my view is this: we should be more like Canada or the UK; legal to use for personal use, that would make the most sense.
I agree with that assessment. What it ignores, however, is the very real concern having to do with safety. Given that what Steve is suggesting is decriminalization for personal use rather than outright legalization, would the simple decriminalization of steroids make it likely that insurers and the medical industry would want to treat those of us who use steroids irrespective of their legality? I, for one, doubt that they would.
Thank you, Viper, this is an excellent and much-needed dialectic.