Steroids are not 'legal' some can be had by a prescription, that is hardly a 'legal' product, it has the same effect on the black market situation. Not all steroids yet again can be had by prescription making your 'legal' argument false on multiple fronts. You can not just go into your doctors office and say 'hey I want steroids'
People were not supose to be able to walk into a DR office and ask for OXY cotten but they did and DRs would write the subsription. If one DR wouldn't the next one would. The same is true with steroids and male enhancement pills. Alot of people tell the DR want they think they need. Become friends with some DRs and they will write anything you ask them to.
That does not equate to the product being legal or the vast majority of the usage coming from actual prescriptions or not. Pain pills are something the doctor has to go by your word on that you're in pain. ED is also one of those things that is kind of on your word. Hormone levels however are tested for, you can't honestly compared the drugs in this situation.
Thought all night and came back. The pharmacy does not sell illegal drugs. I can not prove this with a link. Just a conspiracy theory I guess. Like I said they should be deregulated and sold beside the advil. Steroids are not sold over the counter so that drug companies and DRs can line their pockets.
You are bypassing all possible logic. Making an item 'prescription only' creates the same black market as making the item outright illegal. and YET AGAIN not all steroids are able to be prescribed! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenbolone A steroid, which is illegal in the US
Both nicotine and LSD are drugs. Yes, LSD is a much more ... serious drug. Personally, I think none of them should be legal, but I do suppose something (and cigarettes do a good job of it) has to keep the population regulated.
GRIM, I've thought more about the legalising of drugs and I can understand it from a logic point of view. The chances of it happening though, are very slim to none. Not many people are going to apply the same level of thought to such a concept, and it's far safer for governments to appear anti-drugs and any kind of legalising of drugs is often met with a backlash of society for a number of reasons. So like most good ideas, it's before its time. So maybe it'll be put into practice in 50 years. But I don't think the idea of legalising of drugs is relatively new, so who knows, it'll require some real shaking up on the way that drugs are perceived by society before it'll stand a chance.
This is an interesting video on youtube: If Drugs Were Legal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5MVaTKXyYA The fact of the matter is, prohibition has not solved the drug war. The money would be better spent on harm minimization and drug education, because people will always do drugs.
I live in New Mexico which is one of the biggest meth capitals in the United States. To try and curb this problem, the state has started to regulate the sale of ANY OTC (over the counter) drug that contains some of the main ingredients of meth, like cough medicine, allergy pills, etc. This has done NOTHING to stop the production of meth in this state, not a darn thing. All it's really done is stop me from getting instant relief when I'm dying from a cold/allergies and have to go to the store to get some medicine to help me sleep. I have to go to the darn customer service counter at the grocery store and show an ID and make sure I don't look like a "junkie" to get some pills while they sell a 12-year-old cigs at the next register. It's easier for me to buy my smokes than allergy pills... And the meth problem is still getting worse.....
They'd only have to loosen the dropper and dose you. There's a story, maybe an urban legend, of one of the members of "the family"(a cult) blowing crystal LSD in the face of a DEA agent.