Performance Enhancing Drugs | Coming Soon: Open Olympics!

Oliver Morton is a freelance writer and a contributing editor at Wired and Newsweek International.

Source: The use of performance-enhancing drugs should be permitted in an Open Olympics that would take place alongside a separate Olympics in which drug use is prohibited. Instead of feeling compelled to take drugs in order to compete effectively, athletes would have a real choice as to whether or not they will remain drug-free. This parallel system would also offer greater protection to the health and well-being of those athletes who decide to use drugs,...

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