June 8th, next tuesday, the senate will consider an act that bans all steroid metabolites or precursors and makes it much much easier to ban future prohormones.
This is bad. It will probably pass; it passed the house with 99% voting yes.
I urge you, fax your senators before it's too late! (Don't use email; they don't really read those)
www.senate.gov for contact info.
Here's what I faxed them:
Sites such as www.bulknutrition.com are selling prohormones right up until the ban. If you use or have ever considered using prohormones, STOCK UP NOW, or forever resort to steroids.
This is bad. It will probably pass; it passed the house with 99% voting yes.
I urge you, fax your senators before it's too late! (Don't use email; they don't really read those)
www.senate.gov for contact info.
Here's what I faxed them:
[b said:Quote[/b] ]As a nutritional supplement consumer and a voter in your district, I am gravely concerned about three bills: H.R. 3866, Sen. Biden's S. 2195, and Sen. Biden’s S. 1780. All three bills would circumvent the protections of the Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA) and infringe upon the nutritional freedoms of Americans. They would remove dietary supplement products from the market without a scientific basis and without demonstrating any legitimate public health concerns. All three bills would reclassify a variety of popular over-the-counter prohormone supplements into the Controlled Substances Act.
It is true that potential for abuse of these drugs exists, especially in the case of teenagers. However, outlawing prohormones will inadvertently cause further harm to the health of many supplement consumers. In the world of hormonal enhancements, there have always been two choices. On the one hand, illegal steroids, obtained through unsavory sources, purchased on good faith that the product actually exists in the correct dosages and is safe for injection. People are consistently scammed in the steroid world, and oftentimes products will be deliberately replaced with cheaper alternatives that have drastically different effects. The result of unknowingly using one product at the dosages of another can be severe health issues. On the other hand, there are prohormones; legitimately sold, regulated for purity and content, they represent a way to avoid the strange underground world of steroids. They are already sold only to adults, and are arguably much less dangerous than tobacco or alcohol, which are available indirectly to teens in copious amounts. On average, prohormones are abused to a mere fraction of the degree that those more highly available drugs are.
In legislating prohormones as illegal, so many men who would have preferred the safe and legal option will end up turning to steroids, whose safe use is impeded by the black market’s lack of regulation. I implore you, do not vote to remove the right of a small minority of fitness-minded men to buy and safely use prohormones simply because of a lay public that responds emotionally to a few “worst-case scenario” stories of teen abuse. Please, choose the informed route, and vote no on those bills. Favor “smart” supplement bills that would take science into consideration and make prohormones harder to obtain for youngsters rather than outright banning them because of a few bad apples.
Sincerely, Calkid
Sites such as www.bulknutrition.com are selling prohormones right up until the ban. If you use or have ever considered using prohormones, STOCK UP NOW, or forever resort to steroids.