Who makes HGH and, more importantly, WHERE do they make it?

This makes it seem like they are going to make it controlled, implying that it currently isn't. Is it just a matter of degree? From moving HGH from controlled to double secret controlled?

Currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Schumer’s bill would add HGH to the U.S. Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule III substance, making it illegal to possess without a prescription. That would equate the drug with anabolic steroids, possession of which is punishable by up to three years in prison. Aides to Schumer say Congress has already stiffened laws regulating steroids twice before, and this should be a routine matter.

I like to cite my mom when it comes to drugs as she was a big shot in the California prison system. There is no bigger advocate for the decriminalization of drugs than she is. It's insane how many people we have in prison and how much it costs directly and collaterally.

I like to cite my mom when it comes to drugs as she was a big shot in the California prison system. There is no bigger advocate for the decriminalization of drugs than she is. It's insane how many people we have in prison and how much it costs directly and collaterally.

..."We would like to address any concerns someone might have, but because they choose to remain secret, we can’t even tell who is raising the objection,” Schumer said. “With HGH spreading across college campuses and high schools and perhaps even to kids younger than that, it’s imperative that we act quickly.”

Laws aren't like some jeopardy game, where the goal is to push the button and have the answer the fastest. Once the law is passed, it is on the books, and unmaking it becomes very difficult. It occurs to me that if someone wants a few days to read the bill and consult with medical professionals outside the realm of public comment (and grand-standing)about whether the bill is properly crafted and is appropriate in scope, then maybe that isn't a bad thing.

Just because we can exchange ideas immediately on the internet doesn't mean that everything has to be decided and done immediately. Waiting the 6 day period causes no harm, and actually may lead to some thought and further input.

More than one in every 100 U.S. adults is in jail or prison -- making the U.S. the world's incarceration leader, according to a new report tracking the surge in U.S. inmate population.

The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, urged U.S. states to rein in corrections costs with alternative sentencing programs.

"The United States imprisons more people than any country in the world," the report said. Using updated state-by-state data, it said more than 2.3 million adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 -- or one of every 99.1 adults out of a total population of some 230 million adults.

The numbers put the U.S. far ahead of more populous China, which it said has 1.5 million people behind bars, and Russia, which has 890,000 inmates. The Pew report cited January statistics from the "World Prison Brief" released by the International Center for Prison Studies at London's King's College.

It also said the U.S. -- with 750 inmates per 100,000 people -- "is the global leader in the rate at which it incarcerates its citizenry, outpacing nations like South Africa and Iran."

South Africa has 341 per 100,000 citizens, Iran has 222 per 100,000, and China 119, according to the World Prison Brief.

Russia and other former Soviet republics had the highest incarceration rates within Europe. Russia has 628 inmates per 100,000 people, followed by Belarus's 426 per 100,000, Georgia's 401 per 100,000 and Ukraine's 345 per 100,000, according to the World Prison Brief.