Yes exactly, it's quite a difficult thing to consider a permenant ban but it is definitely something to talk about.

One of the best examples of steroids having a permanent effect is Cyborg. 



You can look at her and know the steroids and testosterone she was caught for have had a permanent effect on her body. Her voice is also deep af. 

She's allowed to fight because she is clean now but obviously she retains her advantage. 

I think that's a poor argument. The effects of ADHD medication (presumably adderall or ritalin) do not persist after they have run their course. What goes up, must come down, and that is the case with most CNS stimulants/depressants. 

Either allow them to dope at their own risk or start banning them for lengthy periods/forfeiting of awards for testing positive for any performance enhancing drugs that are banned or soon to be banned.

The result would be that everyone that even remotely tried to be good at any kind of sport would do doping, including people that's not playing sports at a professonal level, but also people playing for example soccer or football far down in the leagues. It would create tremendous healthcare issues all over the world, and the cost of all the extra lives lost prematurely and all the extra medical care needed would far outweigh the cost of the drug testing done today.

To the topic at hand. With the current system athletes are banned for some months or years if they get performane enhancing drugs into their bodies by accident. So I wouldn't think it would be fair in all cases. If you've been on drugs over a longer period of time and they quite clearly has had an effect on your body then yeah, I don't think you should be welcome back. 

As far as I know, this is more true now than it was in the past, and depends to some degree on the type of steroid(s) being used. It''s somewhat coicidental that you linked a JREP vid in your prior comment, because that's where I initially learned about the lomg term/permanent benefits of steroid use. I always had it in my head that once a steroid user quit, they were going to lose all their gains. Thtat's why I'm for harsher penalties, especially in combat sports.

Yep

It's more true now due to the volume of shit people are taking. But yeah I know what you mean, same here, before you'd see it as some super serum/drug in cartoons that once it wears off it's all gone but it's more like SS God form, once it's gone the effects last. 

Then there wouldn't be enough athletes to compete.

Doping should be legal. The end.

Doping rules are both enforced in a bigot way and eluded in a ridiculously easy way. Drugs that don't help physical performance, but possibly and not surely only the athlete's psyche, like cannabis, shouldn't be banned. Some respiratory stimulants should be allowed under control, not always to give an advantage, but, under strict medical control and declaring their use, in cases when the athlete could suffer a disadvantage if not using them, for example after some recent illness healed, but that is still leaving them with short breath.
Steroids should be banned, unless strictly necessary for some therapy in which they cannot be replaced.
In any case no penalty should be inflicted if the athletes were in good faith or if there are strong doubts about their bad faith, if they were forced (in that case the ban should be inflicted to anybody that forced them), and in every case in which the samples weren't treated and guarded with the maximum care, as although many athletes were guilty, there have been too many of them that were innocent and were framed, and striking the innocent to catch the culprit is inacceptable.