Putting the mora and ethical questionas aside for a moment, there are a lot
of pratical questions that need to be addressed.
>From these posting it seems that the confusion is still there, especially
concerning the nutritional aids. I guess the thing the board needs to
consider is the enforceabability of the policy concerning these substances.
Note, that these substances are also becoming an issue with the FDA. It
is easy to test for Bute and other common drugs and to get an binding case
against the offender. Bute is classified as a drug, it has documented
effects and it would be easy to defend such a decision in a legal
proceeding. But is the same true for say Flex Free, MSM, etc?
I have heard they test and I have heard they don't. So the reliability of
such test may be in question. Next these substances have not been
classified as drugs and the average person off the street (if it ever came
to that) might be a hard sell to convience they are in fact drugs and in
fact they should be banned. So this calls into question the enforceability
issue.
As Joe Long points out this is not an easy issue, but one that has to be
dealt with. In our legal system, when punitive action is taken it is up to
the organization taking such action to be able to prove that such action
was justified. Given the current policy and the current acceptance of
"nutritional aids" in society I believe that enforcement of this rule for
non labled drugs would be probamatical.
What is the answer - a pulished list of these substances and reliable test
to identify these substances? I don't really know, it is a fairly complex
issue. But these are the problems our directors get paid the big bucks to
deal with!
Truman
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The race is not always to the swift, but to those that keep running.
Truman and Mystic "The Horse from HELL" Storm
prevatt@lds.loral.com - Sarasota, Florida
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