The laws that ban usage of anabolic steroids have appeared because of certain conditions. They turned out to be responses to widespread administration of steroids in competitive sports. Anti-Doping Agencies believed that prohibition of steroids would keep professional athletes far from administration of illegal drugs. But criminalization of steroids influenced on intake of steroids by competitive sportspersons slightly.
The steroid laws usually don’t prosecute sportspeople that administrate illegal preparations. On the contrary, non-competitive sportspeople and recreational bodybuilders are usually targets of the steroid laws. They suffer due to consequences of breaking these laws.
This is not only one’s opinion. Real facts display it. Let realize: who is sentenced to imprisonment because of selling steroids? For example, Ashley Dewayne Rivers of Alabama was sentenced to 5-month imprisonment because he had sold about $2000 worth of steroids to a health care provider. Actually, this person wasn’t the target of a steroid investigation. He only turned out to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The estranged wife of this physician said to federal investigators that her husband was involved in operations of black steroid market. Thus, the affirmation of this woman caused the situation, when the doctor was investigated.
In fact, Ashley Rivers was a distributor of steroids for short time. This man supplied his friends of his gym with these medicines. James Robinson, the defense attorney for Ashley Rivers, confirmed that his client had understood his guilty wholly and taken the total responsibility for his illegal operations. The attorney stated that Rivers was a moral man. However he broke the steroid laws, he recognized the dangers and admitted to his guilty.
The attorney for Rivers Ashley asked the judge to sentence his client only to probation. Ashley Rivers cared about his physically impaired wife, 2 children that were adopted by him and 3 children of his disabled brother. Furthermore, this man gave about 40, 000 dollars for persons that lost their homes because of tornadoes. It would be better, if Rivers Ashley were sentenced to probation. Rivers Ashley would continue to work for his family and other people.
But Christopher Brinson, the Assistant U. S. Attorney, refused the request of the defense attorney James Robinson. He claimed that this man committed a serious crime and he should serve time in prison. Although the judge was inclined to agree with the request of the defense attorney James Robinson at the beginning, finally he made the decision to agree with the Assistant U.S. Attorney and sentenced Ashley Rivers to 5 months in jail.
You may realize that steroid laws don’t influence on professional sportspersons.
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