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 It is true that drugs can bring pleasure, but it is equally true that they can bring pain, and there is nothing funny about that.
-This is why we need drug control and drug policy. Drug control is about harm prevention and risk minimization, and drug policy is about where to draw the lines and how to govern the production, distribution and the use of drugs.
+This is why we need drug control and drug policy: to allow people to enjoy the positive potential of drugs while avoiding the negative one.
-In the time of the ancient Greek cities, where everybody knew everybody else, things were relatively simple. Nevertheless, some real bad experiences with hordes of severely drunk young men brought the question of drug controls on the political agenda. As we know from the remarkable book by Michael A. Rinella (Pharmakon; 2010), in the classical period of Socrates and Plato, we can already find two opposing lines of thought that resemble today's prohibitionists on the one and today's harm reductionists on the other hand.
+In a free society it is left to the individual if he or she wants to take the risk of doing drugs. It is the obligation of the family and of the state to inform, to warn, to lend a helping hand, but it is the obligation of the state to respect the individual choice.
+In Ancient Athens, people were as divided about drugs as we are today (Michael A. Rinella: Pharmakon, 2001).
 The fact that alcohol was not prohibited in ancient Greece was a good thing for Western civilization and especially the fine arts, but this did not mean that there was a complete absence of control. Much to the contrary, there was a lot of regulation done by cultural customs and rituals. In other words, there was no state control and especially no penal prohibition, but there was a well-functioning autonomous social control, and the citizens of Athens themselves saw to it that things did not get out of hand.