Should legal anabolic steroids be allowed for personal use?

In Jose Canseco’s 2005 tell-all book, Juiced, and in an interview with 60 Minutes, Canseco estimated that somewhere around 80% of Major League Baseball players use steroids regularly. Ken Caminiti revealed that he won the 1996 National League MVP award while on Steroids, and Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids for over a decade including in 1998 when he set the single-season home run record.

And it’s not just baseball players.

Lance Armstrong was recently stripped of seven Tour de France titles when he was caught using performance-enhancing steroids. And during that seven year period, 61 of the 70 Tour de France competitors were confirmed dopers.

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Since ancient times, one of the chief reasons people banded together was for the purpose of defending themselves against threats to their safety and well-being. Protective measures have taken many forms over many years. One of the most widely-known marvels of such protection efforts is the Great Wall of China, a sight visited by more than 10 million travelers each year \[[@CR1]\].

Historians agree that \~220 B.C. the first Emperor of a newly unified China, Qin Shi Huang, envisioned a grand plan to protect his kingdom from the invading Xiongnu nomadic horsemen of the north. Qin expanded the existing system of defensive walls along the northern border of China into one Great Wall in hopes this barrier would quell the barbarian attacks. Qin succeeded in creating a formidable