If it's all happening above the table, I think you'd actually get better management of the drugs and far fewer adverse side effects.
And what if something is harmful yet enhances your performance? Do we ban and test for that?
It's their choice to take it, isn't it? Alcohol is extremely harmful but it's my choice.
Given the countless stories of child abuse and general abuse by coaches across pretty much every sport, I don’t think you can hide behind “but it was their choice!” when an athlete is forced to take performance enhancing drugs or be blackballed from the sport.
This is in the context of a doping-only league.
Where does what you said rebut my point?
If they don't want to take drugs... don't join the drug enhanced league. This isn't complicated.
So you’re saying we should legalise children taking PEDs because “it’s their choice.” What other things would you like to do to children under the auspices of “their choice?”
Alcohol causes abuse too. I think the hypothetical you're talking about would be a social problem, and not a substance one per se.
Abuse in sports is a terrible ill. I think you're right to highlight that this is a potential vector for it, but I feel like it's a "people problem" and not a "things problem".
So we should create an approved vector for child abuse? “Just fix humans” isn’t a good enough response.