​​Members of the South African Drug Policy Initiative are all committed supporters of a comprehensive overhaul of the South African drug laws as outlined in the SADPI position statement.

We support an evidence based, scientific approach to a process that will eventuate in the legal regulation of all psychoactive substances, thereby containing drug-related harms and the criminal elements that control the drug trade.

Applications for membership are considered by the SADPI board and are open to those who support the SADPI objectives as laid out in its constitution.

​Dan Ncayiyana is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town and​ has been professor in obstetrics and gynaecology, ​Dean of Medicine and Vice Chancellor at two South African universities. He is honorary Fellow of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, and Member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa. Until recently he was a research associate at the Human Sciences Research Council​. ​
​Prof Ncayiyana was editor of the South African Medical Journal for twenty years, a member of international medical editor associations and served on the editorial boards of various international medical journals.
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​‘JP’ Van Niekerk is Emeritus Professor of the University of Cape Town where he was Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. He is an Emeritus Editor of the South African Medical Journal and is a patron of the Hospice Palliative Care Association. Prof Van Niekerk has been President of a number of organisations including the South African Medical Association, the Association of Medical Schools of Africa, an Executive Council member of the World Federation for Medical Education and a Council Member of the Health Professions Council of South Africa. He started three new journals including the South African Journal of Bioethics and Law.

Anine Kriegler is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Centre of Criminology at the University of Cape Town.

​​Ashley Potts is the Director General of the Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre, and and is an executive member of the Community Policing Forum. Previously he was the Regional Director of Scripture Union and was Head of the Child and Youth Care Department at the Cape Town City Mission​.
Ashley is ​ ​prominent in community liaison, has been an activist for over 22 years and more recently has become focused on helping to resolve the drug-related crime issues that are causing devastation and social upheaval in Cape Town communities

​Keith Scott is a medical doctor who has ​​worked ​in South Africa, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Botswana. He arrived in Botswana shortly after the HIV virus did; and experienced at first hand ​how government inertia, ignorance and prejudice allowed the AIDS pandemic to devastate that country and its neighbours.
​The unfortunate similarities between the ​erroneous HIV/AIDS policies and those governing the use and trade in illegal psychoactive substances ​​​convinced him to become involved with ​​the ​ global movement that demands more humane, rational and effective drug policies.