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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by lossolo on Monday August 28, 2017 @05:23PM (#15120199)
> Anabolic steroids are legal in many countries, like Mexico and Poland

This is not entirely true. You will not be penalized for possessing anabolic steroids in Poland but selling without prescription is illegal. So without prescription the only way to get them is black market and there are tons of fakes on black market. So you don't really know what you are buying..

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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by burger_moon on Monday August 28, 2017 @07:13PM (#15120930)
There's also testing kits you can buy and most of these markets the customers are posting results of the tests and blood work to verify the source is legitimate. It's actually a quite reliable and honest economy because of how much scrutiny people have over putting vials of oil in their bodies. It's an interesting market dynamic considering it's completely unregulated and illegitimate.
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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by mr_tristan on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:37AM (#15124568)
The point is that the athlete isn't considered a criminal for possessing them in Poland, whereas in the US, they are.
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