EasyEJL
Never enough
The availability of the products at the local health food supplement store gives some naive consumers the impression that these are less dangerous than an underground or illegal purchase.
Far too many are consuming these products on the ill advice of some retailers check out clerk or stock boy without any idea of what they are taking.
So by sheer volume of consumers and more irresponsibible use there is likely to be more harm than good that come from them.
There is something inherent in the sourcing of an illegal substance than can give someone a sense of greater caution and care that seems to be absent when a consumer can walk up to the local GNC or VitaminShop and purchase an illegal anabolic.
Of course I have no data to support this but I am sure you can get my point and extrapolate something reasonably similar.
I agree with B, but i'll go a step further and say that I beleive the newer agents ARE more damaging. The main reason I feel this way is that the older ones you mention were developed for medical use. So there were studies, it was used under dr supervision. Granted where these are now produced is questionable as its frequently not a pharmaceutical facility, but the chemistry of creating them is fairly straightforwards. Taking a look at currently designers, literally some of them are just the results of poking around looking at chemical structures of hormones, and then bottling it. So perhaps not inherently more harmful but far higher risk. Take a look at compounds like mdien since I know b will have a voice on this one