Should the use of drugs be banned in baseball?
I'm assuming you are meaning to ban performance enhancing drugs. And in that case, they are already banned and baseball has a testing program in place. That is why JC Romero and Manny Ramirez were suspended this year. And if parents are preventing their children from playing baseball because of this...well, that's too bad. From a societal/surivival of the species perspective it's unfortunate we let these people breed in the first place. EVERY sport has people who break the rules and do drugs. It's rampant in the NFL but American media has a "speak no evil of the NFL" policy for some reason, so baseball gets all the attention. All the Olympic sports, some of hockey's fighters have come out publicly about using steroids, basketball sure are a lot more muscular than they were twenty years ago, the Olympics...it's everywhere.
What drugs are banned by NASCAR?
There is no list provided to drivers, owners, or crews. Nascar states that they have always allowed themselves on any given case to determine whether or not a drug they identified would be prohibited by the policy in the program. Nascar said the lack of a list makes the program stronger because it gives the governing body more flexibility. Therefore, they determine what is or is not a violation on a case per case basis and there is no appeal. Dr. Charles Yesalis, a Penn State professor who has testified before Congress on performance-enhancing drugs and spent 25 years researching drug testing, states he is concerned that drivers are not provided a list of banned substances. He goes on to say "That alone to me is ludicrous." "That just kind of violates your sense of fair play. It never would fly in MLB or the NFL because they have a union.“ "The drivers don't have a union, but if somebody did that to me I'd go get myself a nasty lawyer. What if somebody in management or ownership doesn't like you? They can use that as a weapon against you." "What if somebody in management or ownership doesn't like you? They can use that as a weapon against you.” When an expert has such strong concerns about a policy...I have to question that policy. I agree with random drug testing and banning certain substances, but there has to be some kind of guidelines. Leaving it up to officials to determine what is and is not banned raises big red flags with me. We don't live in a perfect world...and without rules to govern the rule makers bias or incorrect opinions can come into play. Especially without an appeal process that leads to a final determination by a neutral third party.
Because Mr. Mackey says that “Drugs are bad, Mmmmmkay. You shouldn’t do drugs, because drugs are bad! Mmmmmmkay, Mmmkay.”Actually Clifford’s answer above can’t be beat. There’s information in there that even a veteran like me didn’t know.Back then there wasn’t the issue of kids and drugs, not even kids and alcohol.Today, kids will try anything and do everything they can to try and change their reality. Read a few forums and see the stupid shit they do, then sit back an wonder why we have a renegade DEA running around grabbing or controlling everything but bath soap, bath salts yes, but so far I can still buy a bar of soap.Seriously, they crush it and snort it, smoke it, try to shoot it up, parachute it (look that one up), shove it up their ass or stick it in any other available orifice to try and get a high on it.Drug education, I feel, has a lot to do with youth wanting to experiment with drugs. It is exactly what got me interested in trying them. The drug education program in the late 60’s and early 70’s did more to spark my interest in trying them out then anything else, including peer pressure. They made those little pamphlets so enticing that we just had to see if it was true or not. Escaping reality? Hell yes! Your starting puberty, your parents are always on your ass for something, school is becoming a drag because there are so many other things you could be doing. Homework sucks and being in by 8–9 or before when your coming of age? Sure, give me a bit of that “escape reality” shit and let's go.Anytime you use the forbidden fruit approach to something your going to end up creating what you were trying to avoid. Although I’m not so sure the programs were designed to avoid anything, but to promote it. I have plenty of cohorts who pin their interest on the same thing.So just remember what Mr. Mackey says and leave it at that.
Morphine while a very strong drug, is a controlled drug, not banned. It is used in the military because it works. it provides very fast pain relief in emergency situations. While it is very dangerous as it can be very addicting, it is also one of the best drugs a medic can have on a battlefield.
Was Accutane Banned? it was an anti-acne drug?
Accutane is a brand name for cis-retinoic acid. That particular brand has been discontinued by the manufacturer. However, there are at least three other companies making cis-retinoic acid, under different names, such as Sotret or Claravis. So,the medicine is still available. As far as the risks go, it is a much safer drug than many other drugs on the market, but the media (and the lawyers) have made it out to be a horrible drug. (This is what lawyers do, in order to drum up business for class-action law suits). It is a wonderful drug for either bad, cystic acne, or persistent acne that is unresponsive to standard antibiotic treatment. As an aside, the recent large studies show that the group of acne sufferers who took Accutane had LESS suicides than the group that didn't take it.
Should we not ban drugs?
Not even close to the same thing. You are comparing apples and oranges. First, all people agree murder is a wrong thing to do, even murderers. Second, people using drugs often do so because of addictions or curious young people who are too stupid to know what they are doing. Banning drugs doesn't' work, people just get them illegally. It would be better to regulate them so that people get them in controlled circumstances from folks who have the goal of helping them get off drugs. As it is, they now get the drugs from criminals who have the goal of increasing their drug use. They often slip bad stuff into the drugs that can cause major behavior or physical problems. Bath salts are really dangerous. People thing they are no big deal because in many states they are legal. But they are like meth and they can cause severe paranoia. Sadly, in my state, a man killed his kid, his wife, and himself under the influence of the paranoia caused by the drug. So it would be better to regulate drugs rather than ban them. And no, I don't use any recreational drugs or anything stronger than ibuprofen. I dont' touch pot or alcohol. (That's to counter the people who insist only stoners want to decriminalize drugs.) Make drugs legal and regulated will cause a massive reduction in our crime rate since most crimes are drug related. It will also cause massive changes in Mexico since the huge crime problems there are a result of the drug trade. It would probably make Mexico a safer place to go and the undocumented immigrants might feel it's safe to go back home. Lots of positive things could come from it, but too much of the government is making money off the failed drug war. (and private industry as well)
Alcohol, its a great way to use excess grains and raise crop prices(demand)…because its fairly to easy to make, and with minimal checks for safety and strength, distribute…it was making criminal groups to much money and causing to many people to question pretty much all laws (and the law enforcement)…women were having to enter into ‘dens of iniquity’ to get their dose…the worst of the drunks got dry because they couldn’t afford to drink (hiding the evils of the world arguments)Tobacco, a lot of people smoked it socially…it didn’t do funny things to peoples minds…it had enough pests and molds that not everyone could grow a lot.
Likely marijuana. Although far from being the cure-all that some advocates claim, it’s not a “demon weed” either. It has proven uses for reducing nausea/improving appetite, making it very useful for those undergoing chemotherapy treatments, as well as targeting inflammation due to auto-immune diseases. It is especially good at treating glaucoma, ulcertative colitis/Crohn’s disease, and severe cases of rheumatoid arthritis. It may also have uses in treating anxiety disorders, due to it’s famous calming effect.
I think decriminalizing drugs is something that needs to be explored especially legalizing Mariajuana, not because drugs are a good thing, they aren't, but because the "war on drugs" is a failure. Like prohibition making drugs illegal has financed the creation of a huge criminal underworld and helps subsidize the enormous drug cartels south of our borders and even the Taliban profits from the drug trade.By controlling the production and distribution of drugs the government can benefit from the tax income rather than spending money on enforcing laws that don't work. The income can be spent on devising more effective drug rehabilitation programs.Alcohol use, an enormous social problem, has been assimilated and legal means of dealing with it developed. The same needs to happen with drug use because people have proven they're going to purchase and use drugs no matter what. The selling of drugs have almost destroyed inner city neighborhoods and fueled gang warfare. The tax money could go into the development of social programs that can begin healing these neighborhoods and eliminate wealthy drug dealers who act as a role model for younger children.Massive amounts of tax money go into supporting our huge prison population, a population that acts as the staff of universities instructing young people in the art of career criminality. Decriminalizing drugs would go a long way towards reducing this drain on our national treasure and the large criminal population in the United States.Drugs are not a good thing, the social costs are well known. Like alcohol drugs destroy individuals and families but what we're doing about it is not working.The ultimate solution lies in eliminating the underlying problem that leads people into the drug use in the first place. For instance alcohol and Mariajuana use is substantially lower in the Netherlands than in the US. What are they doing different from us?For the record I do not use mind altering substances.
Salbutamol has not been banned by Drug Controller of India but is put under DPCO.Government wanted it to be economical for the masses so put it under drug price control, limiting the profit margins for pharmaceutical companies.With squeezed profit margins, only few brands remain in the market. Asthalin and Ventorlin are two brands that we see in our region.Most of the companies switched to Levo-salbutamol, an isomer of Salbutamol (with equal effect and theoretically lesser side effects). Since it is not under price control, it makes economical sense to them as they are charging many times more for it.Present day market is flooded with various combinations of Levo-salbutamol with ambroxol etc at exorbitant prices.