Gerardus 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions".
"I do sympathize with what you do. Emphatically, I would like people to focus on drug problems with a scientific attitude.
Find out the causes of the problems. Addiction is a symptom, not a cause. Treat drug addicts as patients, not as criminals. Also the drug traffickers can be looked upon as victims. They may have turned into criminals, and I am not against heavy punishments, but I also want to know the causes: why did they turn criminal, and what measures could have been taken to avoid this?
But all this is far from my field of competence, I know that these are difficult problems, often with more that one side to them, and I cannot give more useful advices."
