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Originally Posted by castaway01
While today's players might be taking "special" supplements that lead to them having a lot more lean muscle than they did years ago, the average power forward won't have 15 pounds more muscle in the next GAME than he did last game. His skills also aren't magically increasing overnight. Yet jumps in ability like that happen in horse racing more than we'd like to see. From a gambling (much less ethical) perspective, not at all the same.
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good points.
there was a guy who got caught trying 'levamisole' in a horse.
you know, during the cocaine epidemic in the '80s and '90s, cartels would use levamisole as a 'cut' to stretch cocaine. It was cheaper than cocaine, similar enough in appearance and metabolized to a 'stimulant' that smoothed out the 'come down' of cocaine.
"Levamisole is an imidazothiazole chemical most frequently used as an antihelminthic agent in cattle. Over the last decade, levamisole has been increasingly encountered as an additive in both powder and crack cocaine. A white powder with a “fish scale” appearance, the chemical is physically similar to powder cocaine. In vivo, levamisole is metabolized to aminorex, a compound with amphetamine-like psychostimulatory properties and a long half-life; a priori, this property allows levamisole to potentiate and prolong the stimulatory effects of cocaine while bulking up the drug to increase profit for the dealer."
