Jeremy Rose

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

If you have a problem with the American legal system then we have have to move the discussion to another forum. Most if not all of those cases dealt with microscopic levels of legal meds. Name one case where a trainer has been found guilty of giving a horse an illegal painkiller that didnt get a long suspension.

As a lawyer myself, I'm not going to kill the legal system, but having handled cases for other professionals (doctors, nurses, etc.) who have had disciplinary proceedings brought against them for alleged professional misconduct, the penalties that they face for sometimes ambiguous fact scenarios (where the conduct is unintentional) are far more severe than the penalties that the trainers face even when the conduct is intentional.

That being said, I think we can probably agree that it gets back to the observation that BTW made on a thread in the past few days: the real problem is the use of undetectable designer drugs (often used to mask pain). And someone made the great point (actually, I think it may have been you) that we may need serious penalties for some more innocuous stuff because such penaltes would be akin to trying to put the mob out of business by getting them for tax evasion.