Non-competitive athletes and recreational bodybuilders suffer from consequences linked with violation of steroid laws

Steroid laws that ban intake of anabolic steroids have appeared not without any reason. They turned out to be responses to widespread intake of steroids in competitive sports. Anti-Doping Agencies believed that ban of steroids would keep professional sportspeople far from intake of illegal medications. But criminalization of steroids influenced on usage of steroids by competitive sportspersons slightly.
The steroid laws usually do not prosecute athletes that take illegal preparations. On the contrary, non-competitive sportspersons and recreational bodybuilders are usually targets of the steroid laws. They suffer due to consequences of violation of these laws.
This is not just one’s point of view. This is reality. Let see: who is sentenced to prison because of selling steroids? For example, Ashley Dewayne Rivers of Alabama was sentenced to 5-month imprisonment because he had sold about $2000 worth of steroids to a doctor. In fact, this person was not the target of a steroid investigation. He only turned out to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The estranged wife of this doctor said to federal investigators that her husband was involved in operations of black steroid market. So, the statement of this woman led to the situation, when the doctor was investigated.
In fact, Ashley Rivers was a supplier of steroids for short period of time. He sold these medicines to his friends. James Robinson, the defense attorney for Ashley Rivers, claimed that his client had understood his guilty totally and taken the whole responsibility for his illegal actions. The attorney stated that Rivers was a good individual. However he violated the steroid laws, he realized the dangers and admitted to his guilty.
The attorney James Robinson asked the judge to sentence his client only to probation. Ashley Rivers cared about his wheelchair-bound wife, 2 adopted children and 3 children of his disabled brother. Furthermore, Ashley Rivers sacrificed about 40, 000 dollars for people that lost their homes due to tornadoes. It would be better, if this man were sentenced to probation. He would continue his work for his family and other individuals.
But Christopher Brinson, the Assistant U. S. Attorney, refused the request of James Robinson. He stated that Rivers committed a serious crime and he must serve time in jail. However the judge was inclined to agree with the request of the defense attorney James Robinson at the beginning, finally he decided to agree with the Assistant U.S. Attorney and sentenced Ashley Rivers to 5 months in prison.
You may observe that steroid laws don’t influence on professional sportspeople.