I'm not sure you understand the complexity of what you are asking for. It is not about being lazy. PEDs are a range of substances that can enhance endurance, strength, focus, recovery....
Some carry potential for serious side effects which simply can't be mitigated. Once you start the official race to create best PEDs, then it becomes about how much $$$ you can spend and not everyone will have access. At the elite level even a very slight advantage can make the difference between winning or losing. It is not about making average joes into supermen.
Recent documentary on Netflix called Icarus which reveals the story behind Russian Federation Athletes getting banned for doping is a great watch.
We know today's system is far from perfect but I can ensure you what you are proposing is not realistic or better.
I am very well aware of seriousness of PEDs and what they do. This isn't a new belief from me. I work in the sport of strength and conditionoing having been a coach for close to 8 years now. I have had discussions many times over the years about this. So yes, I am informed.
PEDs are not any more dangerous than other narcotics developed and available. If patient misuse Oxycodone, it leads to addiction, possible overdose and death.
And yet it is often prescribed to treat pain.
This idea that these drugs are bad and so, shouldn't be legal is silly. So many of them are bad and yet are perfectly legal. Politics is why these drugs became illegal, and they just stuck by that over the years. Nobody truly cares about the health of athletes.
You are missing the picture. PEDs are extremely present in the world of performance. Extremely. This has nothing to do with who can afford them as people already are. What we do know is drug testing is a failure. Most people get away with them. You can actually go through an entire career, be known as the greatest ever, retire, be the most tested athlete in the world and clear all your test, while using PEDs. So there is no debate about drug testing being a massive failure.
If you legalize them, you make them more accessible, therefore cheaper, and considering they will be regulated, they will become safer as more research will go into development.
You said people will just want to go for more strong drugs if you did that, which is just a cop out argument. Why would any company waste money developing harder illegal drugs and then have to find a way to illegally sell them when they can spend their finances on developing the best legal one and have no issues selling???
Your neighbourhood crackhouse isn't going to be coming up with better steroids than your government backed massive companies.
I have seen Icarus. If anything you should be on my side. Remember when asked how many athletes in the Olympics use PEDs? What was the answer again? Oh ya, ''All of them''.
Just make them legal and regulate them. This is so stupid at this point.
Nothing you said counters what I said.
