Here is an article that informs us that ephedrine is safe and legal, but somehow ephedra is unsafe (although they are the same thing) and is now banned as of today. The Bush Administration must go, as it is his evil father who made AAS illegal in the first place and now Jr. is following in his dad's footsteps with his witchhunt on "steroids" and now ephedra.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=1780681
"The FDA chose to ignore valid science that showed that there wasn't a problem," said Walter Timpone, a lawyer for NVE. "In 1999, [there were] 104 deaths as a result of aspirin ingestion. Are we going to ban aspirin now?"
The ban does not affect decongestants and other medicines containing ephedrine, a synthetic version of ephedra. Drugs containing ephedrine and a chemical cousin called pseudoephedrine are regulated and approved by the FDA and are safe, said agency spokesman Lawrence Bachorik.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=1780681
"The FDA chose to ignore valid science that showed that there wasn't a problem," said Walter Timpone, a lawyer for NVE. "In 1999, [there were] 104 deaths as a result of aspirin ingestion. Are we going to ban aspirin now?"
The ban does not affect decongestants and other medicines containing ephedrine, a synthetic version of ephedra. Drugs containing ephedrine and a chemical cousin called pseudoephedrine are regulated and approved by the FDA and are safe, said agency spokesman Lawrence Bachorik.
