Neither could Lyle Alzado.
Two things, the bad news is (bad in as much as knowing that "a little bit of weed wont hurt you"), is that steroids, if taken moderately and under proper supervision, can do great things to your physique, without alot of side effects. Its when guys (and ladies, ick!) go bonkers on them that they get the bad sides. Its still not something you want to get into anyways, because for most its a slippery slope, they swear they'll only do "one cycle", and only of the safest, weakest drug, but once they start, its hard for most to stop.
Another thing is that without drugs, you can achieve a superior physique that is considered very good these days, so you might as well do it naturally.
Alot of guys get what is called "bigorexia", the fear of getting even a tiny bit smaller. I had a friend who totally screwed himself up this way. He got a back injury, and was so afraid NOT to train (we was already 255 lbs), that the started taking Nubain and kept training, so then he gets hooked on Nubain, and goes to great length to aquire it, gets busted by the feds, cops a deal, stops steroids, gets considerably smaller, starts the juice again (this time, GROWTH HORMONE), gets carpal tunnel from the GH, has to have surgery, can't wait to train, starts on oxycontin for the pain, etc, etc.. needless to stay, I stopped being his friend and I haven't heard from him in many years, he could be dead for all I know, thats how obsessed he was..
There is not much depth to this article. Steroid use is not something that can be summed up so easily. There MAY be benefits to proper steroid use. Defining proper use is the question.
And no, I do not use steroids. However I do supplement ZMA and 7 keto DHEA to raise testosterone levels.
The problem with steroids is that if you don't abuse them, you can get away with it. The Olympics are very tainted, you have countries that invest millions in to masking agents and designer drugs. The idiots, like Bonds, just grabs some junk off the street. Someone sells the $hit out of it, I'm sure, but he's not using anything that I couldn't make out of cough syrup.
I just saw Ken Grifey Jr. Belt a grand slam on Saturday(the Tigers still won), and the crowd(in Detroit) went nuts. The man, Jr, is a legend. People should respect that. Bonds....he's throwing it all away. For nothing.