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Thanks for the UG post by JAG ([email protected]).
Therefore I have sent this letter to :
[email protected]
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heres the letter:
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To the distinguished writer Mr Nelson and the Editor of the Phoenixnewtimes, congratulations on having the insight to publish the article Roid Warrior.
We athletes are infuriated over witnessing the media hype on this subject, that is myth or just plain nonfactual. I have written many letter to congress, senators, media sports writers in vain, when trying to protest the lies and damaging information that is written about athletes who use anabolic enhancing drugs. I have written an 8pg article in the 9/01 issue of Muscular development to show the horrors of a harmless athlete (like your Bob Klap) being put through the legal ringer, just for their attempts to enhance their body or athletic performance.
The problem starts with the media-it falsely reports these stories, for the sensationalism and hype that they create for the public. And then the uneducated public assumes an article is based on fact. When actually, it is obvious to any real athlete that the writer has absolutely no knowledge on the subject of performance enhancing drugs. Then in the resulting public uproar, an equally uneducated politician will step to the forefront and declare war on the drugs and the athletes who use them, in an attempt for public attention, votes, endorsement, and contributions. I can site former President Bush who passed the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990, making steroids a schedule III crime, equal to cocaine and amphetamines. And now
Senator Dorgan (D-NDakota) has taken the torch and is yelling from his soapbox, about a subject he has no informed knowledge of.
Why cant athletes use these substances? The facts your fine article provided-there is little or no evidence of any great harm caused by these drugs. They can not cause overdose, addiction or intoxication. The great harm is only the possibility of being caught and arrested, and the resulting fiasco that will follow the unfortunate athlete. You must perform honest hard work in your training and diet
for steroids to work. Unlike other methods, all legal, of physical enhancement such as liposuction, various implants, facial plastic surgery, which are far more risky and dangerous than steroids. Or you could use hormones for birth control or gender change. But hard working athletes cannot legally use steroids. Legal cigarettes and alcohol kill millions, while steroids have never killed anyone.
Its a travesty, in an era of technology and science-that these laws are guided by such ignorance, misinformation, and a 'Refer-madness' mentality.
Praise you for having the notion to display the side of this issue that too few hear. Id like to hope its the beginning of a new, enlightened awareness of performance enhancing drugs such as Anabolic Steroids. The striving athlete certainly needs this position seen and heard-to rid us from the legal shackles from which we are wrongly bound. Thank you again, Robert Nelson, Bob Klap and the Phoenixnewtimes!
Reply is desired and welcomed.
Sincerely,
Mike S
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Cant hurt to have some backup to go along with my letter-can you folks show your support? Send your letter!
Thanks for the UG post by JAG ([email protected]).
Therefore I have sent this letter to :
[email protected]
[email protected]
heres the letter:
******************************************************************************
To the distinguished writer Mr Nelson and the Editor of the Phoenixnewtimes, congratulations on having the insight to publish the article Roid Warrior.
We athletes are infuriated over witnessing the media hype on this subject, that is myth or just plain nonfactual. I have written many letter to congress, senators, media sports writers in vain, when trying to protest the lies and damaging information that is written about athletes who use anabolic enhancing drugs. I have written an 8pg article in the 9/01 issue of Muscular development to show the horrors of a harmless athlete (like your Bob Klap) being put through the legal ringer, just for their attempts to enhance their body or athletic performance.
The problem starts with the media-it falsely reports these stories, for the sensationalism and hype that they create for the public. And then the uneducated public assumes an article is based on fact. When actually, it is obvious to any real athlete that the writer has absolutely no knowledge on the subject of performance enhancing drugs. Then in the resulting public uproar, an equally uneducated politician will step to the forefront and declare war on the drugs and the athletes who use them, in an attempt for public attention, votes, endorsement, and contributions. I can site former President Bush who passed the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990, making steroids a schedule III crime, equal to cocaine and amphetamines. And now
Senator Dorgan (D-NDakota) has taken the torch and is yelling from his soapbox, about a subject he has no informed knowledge of.
Why cant athletes use these substances? The facts your fine article provided-there is little or no evidence of any great harm caused by these drugs. They can not cause overdose, addiction or intoxication. The great harm is only the possibility of being caught and arrested, and the resulting fiasco that will follow the unfortunate athlete. You must perform honest hard work in your training and diet
for steroids to work. Unlike other methods, all legal, of physical enhancement such as liposuction, various implants, facial plastic surgery, which are far more risky and dangerous than steroids. Or you could use hormones for birth control or gender change. But hard working athletes cannot legally use steroids. Legal cigarettes and alcohol kill millions, while steroids have never killed anyone.
Its a travesty, in an era of technology and science-that these laws are guided by such ignorance, misinformation, and a 'Refer-madness' mentality.
Praise you for having the notion to display the side of this issue that too few hear. Id like to hope its the beginning of a new, enlightened awareness of performance enhancing drugs such as Anabolic Steroids. The striving athlete certainly needs this position seen and heard-to rid us from the legal shackles from which we are wrongly bound. Thank you again, Robert Nelson, Bob Klap and the Phoenixnewtimes!
Reply is desired and welcomed.
Sincerely,
Mike S
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Cant hurt to have some backup to go along with my letter-can you folks show your support? Send your letter!
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