Victor Conte on legalizing steroid use

Victor Conte opens up about his remorse for rationalizing his way into the culture of prescribing performance enhancing drug, but says that some PEDs should be permitted and that he was careful to keep his clients’ usage as safe as possible.
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[@TheChico868]

Really love these Conte Videos. Good work. Never heard his side of things

[@michaelr.4878]

Conte helped paying athletes get and do what they want. I have absolutely zero issues w what he did. Steroids.. or hormones are not the scary thing the media makes them out to be. Before the Ben Johnson scandal and 1990 scheduling of them as a controlled substance...they were not criminal... ppl forget to consider how a law can quickly change how something is perceived. Before 1988/1990, no one really cared. They weren't an issue until the crackdown started. In many countries, they are Over the Counter drugs...or hormones, as they should be called.

[@nuni.v2350]

It is a problem when you’re competing in sports and using drugs to help you have an advantage over others

[@Chandroization]

1:56 “EPO is very dangerous “

[@michaelr.4878]

Conte shouldn't feel guilty or remorseful about anything. He didn't nothing wrong. Athletes make the decision on their own.

[@aChristian4RonPaul]

He was a facilitator and contributed to the problem. What he did was illegal too.

[@JustMeELC]

Except he's not a doctor & had no business messing with this stuff & peoples health to begin with.

[@jasonpopp2026]

@@aChristian4RonPaul if something is considered illegal by the govt is it necessarily wrong? I dont think so. Steroids should be legalized.

[@michaelr.4878]

​@@jasonpopp2026ppl forget..or don't realize that in many countries, they are over the counter.

[@avtwvns]

There are many arguments why he should feel guilty, I like his arguments, and I'm feeling less cynical today, I believe him.

[@wss33]

No steroids should not be legal. Steroids are expensive so not everybody could afford them and the sport would become a chemical war, the athlete with the better chemist wins.

[@derp8575]

filip In a prohibited market perhaps. But the price would drop once permitted in legal markets. It's time to remove the shackles from human potential.

[@lancemilliken9078]

filip steroids are actually ridiculously inexpensive. A years worth of Testosterone, without insurance and of course depending on the weekly dosage, might cost around $400 annually. The raw powder is available in China for all iterations of anabolic androgenic steroids and if they became legal it would only become less expensive

[@Darrell7777]

You mean like the way our justice system works?

[@adrianaugustus1045]

Kelly what it is clearly dumb. She chose to take the drugs and now wants to blame someone. Take some personal responsibility

[@adrianaugustus1045]

White

[@lordoffrog2354]

It’s crazy cuz if u woulda said before the her race that she’s on roids ppl would think ur crazy but look now lol

[@pho3nix-]

Steroids should definitely be legalized, there's no point in trying to control it - much like the war on drugs.

[@MightyJabroni]

I disagree. The problem with anti-doping is not, that it desperately is playing catch up. It is that it is never really enforced as consequent as people think it is. And the reason for that is how it is set up. Who is paying these anti doping agencies? For the most part, it is the promoters of the sports that they do their testing in. And while these promoters want the white west image that comes with anti-doping regulations in place, what they don't want is the very real risk of a big doping scandal. Or the very real danger that their top draws overwhelmingly get sidelined due to doping violations. So they have ready-made loopholes in place. Legit anti-doping policies don't exist, because the powers that are (and, more importantly, pay) don't want them. Doping is instituionalized in sports. Not because the athletes are that clever and ahead of the curve, but because the suits don't want it. And they tend to get what they pay for.

[@JustMeELC]

That's stupid... you are saying natural born athletes should be denied fair competition if they don't wish to risk damaging their bodies/health/future ugh

[@p.6170]

@@JustMeELC the fair competion is already denied.

[@JustMeELC]

Phantom Yes & banks have been robbed too but you don't make it legal just because some people do it.

[@MightyJabroni]

@Jason Blaha’s Strength and Fatness First of all: Fuck you! Just so that we are even on insults out of the blue. Mutual courtesy demands as much. He said: There is no point in trying to control doping. To which I said (in essence), how the fuck do we know that, when nobody is trying to control it anyway? What we have right now, demonstrably is a system that is willfully designed to only catch the reckless and stupid ones ..... and nobody else. WADA has no integrity and didn't even exist at all before late 1999. It was formed opportunistically on the back of some major doping scandals. WADA was and continues to be nothing but PR. Why the fuck you think, that almost all major doping scandals have been revealed by police investigations or information passed on to the press - rather than by WADA itself? It is because it is a toothless Chihuahua watchdog by design, that’s why. The way, whereabouts failures and therapeutic use exemptions are handled, just shows that there are backdoors in place, which are far too blatant to be there by accident. We never had and still do not have a robust anti doping system in the first place. Just lots of tough sounding rhetoric and measures to look incredibly busy.

[@stevenscaramuzzino9804]

I honestly think that he is totally correct on steroids because you are risking your own body on these drugs. Plus steroids can also help you medically with certain things you are having problems with.

[@jenniferemmert4163]

We are talking two different tires of steroids here, just to be clear

[@Camcolito]

Yeah, and then we can legalize cybernetic implants. Fuck it, legalize cheetahs in sprinting and gorillas in wrestling.

[@psycadelic2009]

Legalizing steroids would just push the crazy bastards to insane dosages and risks to try to get the edge over the general juicing populace of athletes. Its fine as is with testing as a deterrent and athletes being forced to form schedules around that, keeps it somewhat under control but better and more stringent testing would minimize it even more. It would be brutal with the poor kids like pacquiao trying to make money from boxing, facing some guys that can actually afford juice and getting brutalized.

[@JustMeELC]

800mEric Nope! Legalizing PED use would mean natural born athletes would be denied fair competition if they don't wish to risk damaging their bodies/health/future smh

[@emjay2045]

What he did wrong was he got caught. I may be wrong but he sure acts like he’s bitter about others not caught but he was .

[@jasonpopp2026]

Here it is, 2020 and we are still fighting to legalize steroids but crack and cocaine are legal in Colorado 🤣

[@nelsoncharlesif]

Drug or no, people who becomes the fans will never fade away. Believed me, everyone is on steroid.

[@ondrey95]

I can't get on the board with this lmaooo

[@so03]

Conte is the best.

[@motley331]

SOMEBODY has got to be the fall guy. ALWAYS is a little guy. I would wager WAY UP within the U.S. Olympic Committee(s), they were fully aware their athletes were juicing.

[@tonyruaporo5535]

By your natural ability

[@TheReedable]

The way Graham asks questions, makes the clips that much longer... He asks questions like how I explain to my parents how the smart tv works

[@dannywallace1730]

If I see something going wrong I get off...Use your HEAD

[@Sneakypete777]

The incessant use of the phrase "illegal performance-enhancing drugs." is a little tedious. Yes, Graham, the viewer understands that PEDs are illegal and that anyone who would do such a thing is very very naughty.

[@aaronmichaelmusic_]

I love how graham always says "illegal performance enhancing drugs" throughout the whole video interview. like yea, we get it. just say peds lol

[@mssha1980]

I think he says it because there are legal PEDs

[@aaronmichaelmusic_]

@@mssha1980 lol name a PED that's legal under in Olympic /USADA rules. Even TRT is illegal.

[@mssha1980]

@@aaronmichaelmusic_ plenty of vitamins and supplements that assist with weight loss, recovery, etc that are legal. I’m sure many are things that aren’t even on WADA radar yet

[@aaronmichaelmusic_]

@@mssha1980 vitamins aren't peds. supplements are so broad based.... a supplement could be creatine, fish oil. etc. its not a ped either.

[@katomiler843]

"... join the culture."

[@jorgedominguez2007]

Lance Armstrong and Dr. Ferrari should form an association similar to Victor Conte's to help monitor steroid use in cycling.

[@alexk1682]

Lol Lance is remorseless. You think he cares? He just wanted money and power, he could care less about that. I don't think you know much about Lance Armstrong.

[@dannygjk]

Lance Armstrong is a Texan and he was raised by a Texan. Any questions?

[@justsayin7865]

If you win with PEDs then you need to give them credit on your trophy

[@JacobGittes]

Annoyingly over-edited. I love these interviews, but the Michael Bay editing is just too much.

[@bugida3266]

Hictor Hante

[@satviknaren9681]

jus look at graham's face , He looks kinda angry

[@adrianaugustus1045]

Actually everyone doing it kind of does make it okay. Lol. Everyone makes up society

[@davidschosser4069]

The host is a tool. My thoughts on gear is if u r informed on what u putting in ur body its ur decision but u live with the consequnces. That is life.

[@JustMeELC]

David Schosser Legalizing PED use would mean natural born athletes would be denied fair competition if they don't wish to risk damaging their bodies/health/future! smh

[@kelainefes]

@@JustMeELC natural born athletes on PEDs are the ones winning medals and championships. There is no room for natural athletes anymore. Legalising PED use would just make it safer than it is now.