It seems that the recent investigations of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball and the testimony from pitcher’s
Andy Pettitte and Cy young award winner Roger Clemons to the the Senate has motivated congress to act quickly. Senators Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Chuck Grassley have drafted a bill designed to combat use of human growth hormone by athletes gaining an unfair advantage. Not because of hgh side effects. The bill had to be quickly dropped and altered because it contained language that would restrict the use to others including children who use hgh for growth deficiencies
What is disturbing is the choice of congress to pick hysteria over logic. The move to draft a bill to make hgh illegal is not because of the documented hgh side effects, but because some pro athletes using it as a performance enhancing drug
