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Shaun Shelly

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Shaun Shelly aims for a world where people can make informed choices about their use or non-use of drugs without being criminalised or marginalised.
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Understanding South Africa's Illegal Drug Market: Valuation, Trends, and Policy Implications

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By Shaun Shelly, Anastasia Bezverkha
| TalkingDrugs
The illicit drug market is one of the most resilient sectors of the global underground economy. A study in the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, published last year, casts light on the South African market for unregulated drugs – particularly cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.
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OPINIONISTA: The ‘war on drugs’ is a failure that criminalises African cultural traditions and our youth

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By Shaun Shelly
| Daily Maverick Verified
Shaun Shelly is chairperson of the Board of the South African Network of People Who Use Drugs. For centuries cannabis and khat have been used by African communities. Their use was governed by social contracts, cultural beliefs and practices. Criminal sanctions have contributed to the problematic use of these drugs. In 1963 the vision of a pan-African future was formalised by the heads of 32 independent African states, forming the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa.
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GroundUp OP-ED: People who are dependent on drugs need support, not punishment

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By Shaun Shelly
| Daily Maverick Verified
We don’t have a drug problem. The problem lies in the way we think about drugs. Unless we stop demonising drugs, criminalising or pathologising the people that use them and abandon the goal of a drug-free society, we will continue to be distracted from the real problems that cause many of our youth to find solutions in the dependent use of drugs. The 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs committed countries “to prevent and combat the evil of drug addiction”.
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