Laws, Legalities & Customs

So I'm sure by now, everyone and their mother knows Anabolic Steroids are illegal. This includes most everything that goes along with a steroid cycle such as HGH, anti-estrogens, etc. Anabolic steroids are classified as a Schedule III controlled substance. The funny thing about it is that they were legal until 1991 when the government decided to create another thing to make money off of by making arrests and charging fines. The Anabolic Steroids Control Act was enacted in 1991 which made steroids illegal even though the American Medical Association, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Drug Enforcement Agency all apposed the move. So what was their reasoning behind this? No one really knows or can give a concrete answer.

This all came about after the 1988 Olympics when Canada's Ben Johnson beat America's Carl Lewis in the 100 meters and later tested positive for steroids. Until then, no one had any issues with steroids in the legal sense. They were banned in the Olympics and in other various sports organizations such as the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, etc but there were no restrictions for the average Joe who lived in BFE Montana who wanted to put on a little size. But times have changed and laws are laws so there's no point in sulking about it. The only thing to do is figure out how to get around the laws and find the loop holes.

Most steroids are brought into the country via Mexico or Europe. There used to be a ton of Under Ground Labs all throughout the US until the government set up a couple of major stings that pretty much ended that entire industry. And because of this, it's a lot harder to get a hold of steroids now days.

One of the loop holes has come in the form of research laboratories. These are companies that make different chemicals, mostly anti-estrogens, fertility drugs, weight loss drugs, etc., that are illegal but because they are produced for research purposes only, they are legal to buy and posses. They usually come in the form of liquid sub-lingual drops, meaning you take it orally and let it absorb through your mouth, and are effective and legit.

The only other loop hole to obtain a steroid legally without a prescription would be Trenbolone Acetate in the form of cattle implants. You can buy these cattle implants from online veterinary stores, or livestock businesses if you live in a rural area. The two most common brands are Finaplix-H and Component-T. They are legal to purchase and posses but illegal to use in any manner other than the implantation of cattle. What steroid users do is break down the pellets into a liquid and let it separate from the solids (glue and binders) and then extract the liquid which is the Trenbolone Acetate and filter it and then inject it. The down side to all of this is that once you start tampering with the Finaplix or Component-T its considering manufacturing of a controlled substance and you will be looking at substantial jail time and fines if caught.

I have also seen "Paper Anabolics" which are different types of oral steroids that are absorbed into blotter paper. These are Customs worst nightmare. The way in which they are manufactured is very innovative. The raw steroid is mixed with alcohol and put in a tub. the blotter paper is then soaked in the tub and hung to dry. Once all the alcohol evaporates you are left with paper containing 100% of the pure steroid it was soaked in. The only down side to paper anabolics is that it's very hard to get a good consistency. But it's next to impossible fr customs to detect. The price for paper steroids is about the same as it wold be to purchase the pills. However, there aren't a lot of places out there that carry them.

Another method of packaging I have see that was pretty slick was to put the liquids in small 5ml satchels that look like big ketchup packets. This makes them easy to get through Customs as they don't have a defined shape with metal and glass like a vial would. They are the same price as normal liquids but the one downside is that the company that makes them tends to mix their products with a fairly high Benzyl Alcohol (BA) content so it can make for a painful injection a couple days after shooting it.

Lastly, make sure anyone who lives with you doesn't know that you have steroids there or make sure they know to tell law enforcement they knew nothing about it to keep them out of trouble should you get busted. Steroids are fairly easy to conceal, considering they come in small packages and they don't put off any kind of odor that a drug dog could pick up on and law enforcement does have some limitations physically that hinder them from looking in certain spots. If you are creative enough and don't have a lot to conceal, you should have no problem coming away from a raid unscathed.