[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Deacon Blues

It's going to be based around money and public opinion. This generation people still get outraged about shooting up things, so I don't see a large change coming anytime soon as team owners will still frown upon it. More likely, however, is that rookies will be introduced to performance enhancing drugs earlier as a way to guarantee big league success, this will become a more and more common practice and proceed to trickle down until most major stars did steroids at some point in career. As it gets more common so will public acceptance, at which point it'll just be one of those things you don't talk about it but everyone knows. I don't ever foresee a complete legalization considering some are illegal by federal law anyway, but laxer rules and supervision will probably grow incredibly.

This is an opinion that I have regarding the use of steroids in sports. Until there is no doubt left whatsoever that steroid use, performance enhancing drug use - does not adversely affect the athlete's health, it will never be condoned or fully accepted. Heart problems, violence, mood swings, suicides, etc. -those types of issues will have to be proven not to have been caused, affected, or influenced by the drugs used.

Another aspect that can be looked at with the performance enhancement drugs is the integrity of the win. Even in the current sports climate that surrounds us - that is an aspect that I think about and have for a long time.