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How Shellfish Fuelled a Meth Boom

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From poaching endangered shellfish to smoking quaaludes, this is the wild origin story of how meth took over South Africa.

The use of meth, known as Tik, has skyrocketed across South Africa. It's thought that the country might have one of the highest per-capita rates of crystal meth use on earth.

But the wildest twist in the tale is that this may have been ultimately caused by a secret weapons program run by the old apartheid regime itself.

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