Sandy, dont' take my joke seriously, like others have :) I was just commenting on your obsession with the exclamation point, that's all.

I agree with you with just about everything. But I really, really, really, really do not care about steroids anymore. If you do them with your head on straight you will not have any health problems, and most athletes who make money, and even a lot of people who don't, are taking them. like the "drug war" here in the states, it's very debatable as to whether or not it's worth the money spent to test athletes, especially when there are NUMEROUS resources available to athletes to hide the fact that they are using them. Most records in modern sports have probably been achieved with the use of performance enhancing drugs. I, for one, have serious neurological damage from having a herniated disc that was misdiagnosed for 5-6 years and have to take what would be classified as narcotics according to most athletic commissions, and I wouldn't be allowed to compete after taking a lot of drug tests. (actually, I could if I cheated, but the principle is the same) I think it's time to accept the fact that athletes are using drugs and deal with it. (Trust me: I saw enough in less than a year as a head trainer at a commercial gym to realize this) The more you persecute something like this that can't directly be affected by persecution, the more dangerous it becomes. It's hard to argue that a junkie would be breaking into a house for drug money when they could buy it at a drug store; likewise, it is hard to argue that an athlete would get steroids, taken from horses or cadavers, (and often from a veterinarian!) from some scumbag at the gym when they could get them from a normal doctor. Let it lie, and let athletes who want that extra edge do it without endangering their health by going to criminals instead of responsible doctors, is what I say.