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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is taking a stand and speaking out for a moderated steroid use policy. When speaking at a forum at the University of Pittsburg he told a group of university students that he is in favor of supervised steroid use for athletes. Now, how do you supervise something as unpredictable as steroids, specific steroids react to the human body differently than others, and the purpose of exiling steroids all together is because you don’t want to force anyone who doesn’t want to use steroids to begin using them because of the competitive disadvantage.

While speaking Cuban made a suggestion “that athletes could use steroids to recover from injuries as long as a doctor is supervising the programme and it could be insured there were no long-term harmful side effects.” OK Mr. Cuban just two things wrong with this suggestion, one even if athletes were allowed to us steroids to recover from injuries faster, they would come back stronger and better than before, therefore causing a competitive disadvantage. And two, once an athlete is on steroids their body becomes more dependent and more susceptible to break down so their really is no way to insure that their will be no long term side effects. I see what he’s trying to do and where he’s going with this, but there is no way you can regulate something that not everyone is using because it creates to much controversy. The next thing you know you’ll have guys faking injuries so that they can get steroids “legally” and then you get those owners who will do anything to win and now they have a say in who gets steroids. It would just be too much for the league to regulate and the risk outweigh the reward.