According to usada.org, “PEDs have the ability or potential to drastically alter the human body and biological functions, including the ability to considerably improve athletic performance in certain instances.” As the quote suggests I believe PEDs should be legal in sports because they are beneficial because they help athletes recover and heal, legalizing PEDs will save the government billions of dollars a year, and last, it would even out the playing field for athletes. Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) are Substances used to improve any form of activity performance in humans.
Some people my say that Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) should stay illegal in sports because they are dangerous, while that may be true it would be less dangerous to allow athletes to take them. According to 10 Reasons Performance Enhancing Drugs Should be Legal, “They’re safer when regulated, because while doing them illegally the rules restrict athletes from receiving the correct advice and guidance from a professional.” Trying to give…show more content… As reported by Procon.org, “If athletes want to use PEDs then they’ll find a way whether it’s legal or not.” According to this statment, it’s made clear that athletes will use PEDs no matter the rules. But if we legalized them it would be fair to the athletes that don’t use them to be able to use them and the players that use them right now to continue using them. Like 10 Reasons Performance Enhancing Drugs Should be Legal puts it, “Legalizing PEDs will just make it more fair for athletes.” Imagine you’re the only athlete on the field not using PEDs everyone else around you is playing a terriffic game and you are playing average. As stated before it would even out the playing field. This happens much more often than you would think, According to Anabolic Steroids, “. . . About 30% of professional athletes use anabolic
