Performance Enhancing Drugs: Should They Be Legal Or Stay Illegal
Performance Enhancing Drugs...Should They Be Legal Or Stay Illegal? Find Out Now!!
A handful of athletes use performance enhancing drugs. But are those good for you and is the benefit really worth it? I believe that performance enhancing drugs should all stay illegal in sports of any kind. First of all, it gives the athletes that use them a higher muscular endurance and a higher muscular strength than any athlete that doesn’t use them. The greeks and romans used to eat herbs that would give them a higher endurance level and prevent fatigue for when they were fighting. That proves that it gives them a higher endurance level and puts them a couple notches above the other gladiators that don’t use those herbs. It happened back then in sports and it still happens to this very day. It can even take it too far, during the 1960’s olympics there was the first reported death, the man that died was Knud Jensen who was a Danish cyclist. He died because of taking performance enhancing drugs that he took to gain an advantage over every other cyclist. But that is what killed him, the Drugs, they have long term effects on your health.
Another reason I believe that drugs should stay illegal comes from the man who killed 6 million jews from 1933-1945. This man is Adolf Hitler, Adolf and his army tested …show more content…
So, when an athlete comes out about using drugs in his/her sport, the child thinks it is ok to start taking that drug. This makes the long term health of our youth diminish over time. The health of the youth in our country is very important, it is how they will grow up and be like. So, when an athlete comes out about using drugs our youth thinks they are good for you and start taking them. But, some drugs are bad for you, some hurt you more than they help you. Which could change the way sports will be in the future and what the children of the next generation act like and believe
A handful of athletes use performance enhancing drugs. But are those good for you and is the benefit really worth it? I believe that performance enhancing drugs should all stay illegal in sports of any kind. First of all, it gives the athletes that use them a higher muscular endurance and a higher muscular strength than any athlete that doesn’t use them. The greeks and romans used to eat herbs that would give them a higher endurance level and prevent fatigue for when they were fighting. That proves that it gives them a higher endurance level and puts them a couple notches above the other gladiators that don’t use those herbs. It happened back then in sports and it still happens to this very day. It can even take it too far, during the 1960’s olympics there was the first reported death, the man that died was Knud Jensen who was a Danish cyclist. He died because of taking performance enhancing drugs that he took to gain an advantage over every other cyclist. But that is what killed him, the Drugs, they have long term effects on your health.
Another reason I believe that drugs should stay illegal comes from the man who killed 6 million jews from 1933-1945. This man is Adolf Hitler, Adolf and his army tested …show more content…
So, when an athlete comes out about using drugs in his/her sport, the child thinks it is ok to start taking that drug. This makes the long term health of our youth diminish over time. The health of the youth in our country is very important, it is how they will grow up and be like. So, when an athlete comes out about using drugs our youth thinks they are good for you and start taking them. But, some drugs are bad for you, some hurt you more than they help you. Which could change the way sports will be in the future and what the children of the next generation act like and believe