The South African Drug Policy Initiative (SADPI) is a Voluntary Association created by a group of individuals who are concerned ​at the universal lack of awareness among the South African public of the damage that the laws governing the trade in psychoactive drugs is causing to the social and economic fabric of society.

Members of SADPI are involved in measures to correct the misinformation surrounding problematic drug use; as well as lobbying politicians to reform the laws that forbid the production, sale, possession, and consumption of most psychoactive substances.

​We are advocating for a regulatory framework of the kind used for other potentially harmful psychoactive substances such as alcohol, tobacco and prescription drugs.

SADPI members and their supporters believe that the criminalisation of drugs, and of the people who use drugs, causes greater harm to individuals and society than the drugs themselves; and that it sustains the proliferation of organised criminal groups.