The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs, (Hardcover)

<b>A GRIPPING GLOBAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHANGING WORLD OF RECREATIONAL DRUGS - WHO PROFITS, WHO SUFFERS AND WHAT WILL FOLLOW THE WAR ON DRUGS</b> <p>From America's plantation-turned-prison known as Angola in Louisiana to the psychedelic boom of Silicon Valley, <i>The Next Fix </i>tracks a seismic shift in global drug policy. Kojo Koram--legal scholar and acclaimed author of <i>Uncommon Wealth</i>--travels across five continents to examine how criminalized substances are being rebranded as commodities in a new billion-dollar industry. Legal cannabis dispen&amp;shy;saries now trade in what once led to life sentences.Psychedelics have become fertile ground for biotech.But for all these developments, prisons still swell with underprivileged users and addicts, and enforce-ment falls hardest along lines of race and class. </p><p>This is not a polemic for or against legalization. It is a powerful, clear-eyed reckoning with how we got here--and what kind of future is taking shape in a world addicted to economic "fixes" every bit as much as it is troubled by drugs. Combining report&amp;shy;age, political analysis and vivid personal testimony, <i>The Next Fix </i>tells the untold story of drugs, capital&amp;shy;ism and inequality in the twenty-first century.</p>

• The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs, (Hardcover)
• Author: Verso
• ISBN: 9781804294123
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-07-28
• Page Count: 304