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Let Them Take 'Roids!

Floyd Landis advocates to legalize doping in professional cycling, arguing it's time to regulate instead of ban. Explore his controversial stance.

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Floyd Landis wants to legalize doping in professional cycling. His argument is a reasonable one. Landis argues that, since everyone is doing it already and the tests will never keep up, might as well just legalize and regulate it instead of banning it entirely. Other cyclists and the governing bodies of competitive cycling have all but called Landis a complete nutter. Charges of doping brought against other cyclists, particularly Lance Armstrong, are met with refutations of "innocent until proven guilty." While I agree that doping should be allowed for cyclists, I disagree with the reason Landis gives:

You got to go about it another way and you've got to legalise doping. They [the testers] are so far behind in the testing organisations that there's no way to change it now. Just accept that it's here, that it's not going away and that it's just going to get more complicated and ...

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