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I sit out nearly all the Doper Wars posts- too much jeering, flaming, and weird circular "logic"- smoke dope, don't smoke it, I really don't care as long as you leave me alone and don't harm anyone else.
But I'll just tell you this- when I ran my wrecker service in the nineties, I had to be the Drug Control Officer of...
myself.
Get it? The FAA Reauthorization Act of 1995 deregulated Wrecker companies ( sounds good, right? Wrong! ) so the Feds- who formerly had authority, but no personnel or funding, got replaced by State agencies, who had both money and personnel to do so.
I had to write myself letters, telling myself not to use drugs, take myself to a medical lab and whiz in a bottle, and then rat on myself if I tested positive.
But, since I was The Drug Control Officer, of... myself... would I turn myself in, or just write a strongly-worded letter?
Never could figure that one out...
If every professional athlete in the United States used steroids, I wouldn't give a flying FReep.
I don't think the anti-steroid "craze" is going to do any damage the Drug War already hasn't.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on this.
The point to me is that baseball's steroid problem is baseball's steroid problem, and the gov't should stay out of it. This is easy enough, just make all players sign agreements that they waive all medical privacy rights to the MLB.