A person that cares about 5 children and his ill wife is sentenced to prison because he was in a wrong place at a wrong time

The laws which criminalize usage of anabolic steroids have appeared due to certain conditions. They turned out to be responses to widespread intake of steroids in competitive sports. Anti-Doping Agencies thought that prohibition of steroids would keep professional sportspersons far from usage of illegal products. But criminalization of steroids influenced on usage of steroids by competitive sportspeople slightly.
The steroid laws commonly do not prosecute sportspeople that administrate illegal drugs. On the contrary, non-competitive sportspersons and recreational bodybuilders are usually targets of the steroid laws. They suffer due to consequences of breaking these laws.
This is not just one’s point of view. This is reality. Let see: who is sentenced to imprisonment because of selling steroids? For example, Ashley Dewayne Rivers of Alabama received 5 months in jail because he had sold about $2000 worth of steroids to a health care provider. Actually, this individual wasn’t the target of a steroid investigation. He just turned out to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The estranged wife of this physician talked to federal investigators that her husband was involved in operations of black steroid market. So, the statement of this woman led to the situation, when the doctor was investigated.
In fact, Rivers was a supplier of steroids for short period of time. This person supplied his friends of his gym with these medicines. James Robinson, the defense attorney for Ashley Rivers, said that his client had understood his guilty wholly and taken the total responsibility for his illegal actions.  The attorney noted that Rivers was a good individual. However he violated the steroid laws, he realized the dangers and acknowledged his guilty.
The attorney for Rivers Ashley asked the judge to sentence Rivers Ashley only to probation.  Ashley Rivers cared about his wheelchair-bound wife, 2 children that were adopted by him  and 3 children of his disabled brother. Moreover, this person gave about 40, 000 dollars for people that lost their homes due to tornadoes. It would be better, if this man were sentenced to probation. He would continue to work for his family and other people.
But Christopher Brinson, the Assistant U. S. Attorney, refused the request of James Robinson. He claimed that Rivers committed a serious crime and he should serve time in prison. However the judge was inclined to agree with the request of the defense attorney James Robinson  at the beginning, finally he decided to agree with the Assistant U.S. Attorney and sentenced Rivers to 5 months in jail.
You may see that steroid laws don’t influence on professional sportspersons.