Steroid use has almost always been frowned upon in the sports industry. Performance enhancing drugs, or PED’s are still not allowed in most all sports nowadays, even being tested for in professional leagues. However, many argue for reasons we will later discuss that that rule should not still be in place. Because of that, sports should embrace these performance enhancing drugs as the natural progression competition takes. Although there is much debate about steroids in general, almost everyone would have to agree that legalizing steroid use would make competition more fair. For decades some athletes have been able to get away with using steroids while others have not. This creates an uneven balance, as some players are looked at as being better …show more content…
You know why that is? It is because the actual steroids used are from back alley transactions with no real tests done on the quality of them or where they came from. Source 4 reports that “Legislation of doping...would encourage more sensible...use of drugs in...sport, leading to an overall decline in the rate of health problems associated with doping by allowing [doping to be] medically supervised”. If steroids were legalized for use in sports, not only would the athletes using them be healthier but as a whole it would be inherently safer as well. This is because not only the use of steroids would be closely regulated, but also the quality and source of the drugs as well. Furthermore, the legalization would finally draw a line between what is allowed and what is not allowed, instead of many drugs falling into a murky gray area: “The boundary between therapeutic and...performance enhancing...drugs is blurred at present and poses difficult questions for the controlling bodies of antidoping practice.” Allowing athletes to use these safely regulated performance enhancers would no longer force boards of judges to scrutinize over the fine nuances between what is considered legal or illegal in sports. Some might argue that “Steroids...can pose health risks to the athletes involved” (S1), however “athletes already