The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs - Hardcover

by Kojo Koram (Author)

A GRIPPING GLOBAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHANGING WORLD OF RECREATIONAL DRUGS - WHO PROFITS, WHO SUFFERS AND WHAT WILL FOLLOW THE WAR ON DRUGS

From America's plantation-turned-prison known as Angola in Louisiana to the psychedelic boom of Silicon Valley, The Next Fix tracks a seismic shift in global drug policy. Kojo Koram--legal scholar and acclaimed author of Uncommon Wealth--travels across five continents to examine how criminalized substances are being rebranded as commodities in a new billion-dollar industry. Legal cannabis dispen­saries 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.

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 report­age, political analysis and vivid personal testimony, The Next Fix tells the untold story of drugs, capital­ism and inequality in the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

Kojo Koram is an author and Professor, teaching at the School of Law at Loughborough University. Born in Accra, Ghana, and raised on Merseyside, UK, he is now based in London. In addition to his academic writing, he has written for the New Statesman, Guardian and New York Times. His first book, Uncommon Wealth, won the English PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing and was chosen as a Guardian Book of the Year.