The article is “Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Legalized” by Stephen Wang. The article focuses on the idea that performance-enhancing drugs being legalized would be beneficial for the world of sport. There are conflicts with regulating drugs because of design. There are perspectives on how doping may be medically supervised. There is the exploration of doping to win is a necessity. It would be a difficult task to catch dopers. A main concern for legalizing performance-enhancing drugs is to figure out how would it work to regulate. The author of the article, Stephen Wang has a decided a position on whether performance-enhancing drugs should be legalized as seen in the article. He supports the legalization of performance-enhancing drugs
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Evidence used by Wang is that there needs to be supervision medically, and this could be done through legalizing performance-enhancing drugs. Much support for legalization is due to the fact that the drugs are unsafe because of the priority to make them undetectable instead. It is stated that priorities should be seen in the perspective of public health. A significant statement made by Wang is that skeptics of legalization point to ethical consequences. A British lawyer says in his book, that "The objects of doping control are clear ... a level playing field.... The use of drugs violates all such notions of equality: the drug taker starts with an unfair advantage." There is the argument that there are unfair advantages due to genetic predisposition. The example given is a successful skier named Eero Mäntyranta who had naturally higher red blood cell counts do to genetic mutation. There is a new anti-doping technique that may be promising called a biological passport. The passport records biological markers over a period of time and compare previous to new records. Another significant statement made is that there needs to be further research to answer specific questions. An underlying question would be to ask if legalization would fair and a safe way out of the
Evidence used by Wang is that there needs to be supervision medically, and this could be done through legalizing performance-enhancing drugs. Much support for legalization is due to the fact that the drugs are unsafe because of the priority to make them undetectable instead. It is stated that priorities should be seen in the perspective of public health. A significant statement made by Wang is that skeptics of legalization point to ethical consequences. A British lawyer says in his book, that "The objects of doping control are clear ... a level playing field.... The use of drugs violates all such notions of equality: the drug taker starts with an unfair advantage." There is the argument that there are unfair advantages due to genetic predisposition. The example given is a successful skier named Eero Mäntyranta who had naturally higher red blood cell counts do to genetic mutation. There is a new anti-doping technique that may be promising called a biological passport. The passport records biological markers over a period of time and compare previous to new records. Another significant statement made is that there needs to be further research to answer specific questions. An underlying question would be to ask if legalization would fair and a safe way out of the