Should Athletes Be Allowed Recreational Drugs
Should Athletes be allowed Recreational Drugs?
In professional sports, the topic of drugs, both recreational and performance enhancing, has been a major issue and has been discussed and viewed over time after time but the result has always been the same. Professional sports people are not allowed to use recreational or performance enhancing drugs. The part of this law that says performance-enhancing drugs are banned should be left in to make sport fair, but professional sports people SHOULD be allowed to use recreational drugs.
In the World Anti-Doping Code, it states that professional sports people are not allowed to use recreational or performance enhancing drugs. The use of both types of drugs has been frowned upon in the sports industry
by fans, other athletes and the sports authority. The use of recreational drugs has a chance of deteriorating the athlete’s performance in the sport and so conversely, will not make the advantage that the clean athletes have that much bigger. Performance enhancing drugs have a massive effect on the advantage that an athlete has on the field or court, and it is because of this that athletes should be allowed to use recreational drugs and the ban on the adoption of performance enhancing drugs to remain the same, or go a step further and increase how strict the law is.
The stakeholders affected by the current law and the suggested changes to the law are the athlete’s themselves, the sporting authority and any fans of the sport. The opinion on the use of recreational drugs for professional people is split 50/50 with the fans. Half the fans say that athletes should be allowed to use recreational drugs, however, the other half is firmly planted in their belief that sport should remain clean, not developing or improving the law that prohibits the use of recreational drugs. Anti-drug fans believe that the “fairness” of the sport will be compromised through the handling of recreational drugs, moreover, as stated before, the use of recreational drugs will not make the preference the clean athletes have that big, or vice versa. The sporting authority is strongly against the use of any drug and has the same claim about “fairness in sport”. Consequently, monitoring the use of recreational drugs will be more difficult and therefore it means that more resources can be devoted to testing athletes for performance enhancing drugs. The athletes are also split 50/50. Half want the injunction on recreational drugs to be lifted, furthermore the other half wishes for the law to stay the same or be stricter.
In professional sports, the topic of drugs, both recreational and performance enhancing, has been a major issue and has been discussed and viewed over time after time but the result has always been the same. Professional sports people are not allowed to use recreational or performance enhancing drugs. The part of this law that says performance-enhancing drugs are banned should be left in to make sport fair, but professional sports people SHOULD be allowed to use recreational drugs.
In the World Anti-Doping Code, it states that professional sports people are not allowed to use recreational or performance enhancing drugs. The use of both types of drugs has been frowned upon in the sports industry
by fans, other athletes and the sports authority. The use of recreational drugs has a chance of deteriorating the athlete’s performance in the sport and so conversely, will not make the advantage that the clean athletes have that much bigger. Performance enhancing drugs have a massive effect on the advantage that an athlete has on the field or court, and it is because of this that athletes should be allowed to use recreational drugs and the ban on the adoption of performance enhancing drugs to remain the same, or go a step further and increase how strict the law is.
The stakeholders affected by the current law and the suggested changes to the law are the athlete’s themselves, the sporting authority and any fans of the sport. The opinion on the use of recreational drugs for professional people is split 50/50 with the fans. Half the fans say that athletes should be allowed to use recreational drugs, however, the other half is firmly planted in their belief that sport should remain clean, not developing or improving the law that prohibits the use of recreational drugs. Anti-drug fans believe that the “fairness” of the sport will be compromised through the handling of recreational drugs, moreover, as stated before, the use of recreational drugs will not make the preference the clean athletes have that big, or vice versa. The sporting authority is strongly against the use of any drug and has the same claim about “fairness in sport”. Consequently, monitoring the use of recreational drugs will be more difficult and therefore it means that more resources can be devoted to testing athletes for performance enhancing drugs. The athletes are also split 50/50. Half want the injunction on recreational drugs to be lifted, furthermore the other half wishes for the law to stay the same or be stricter.