The Next Fix

Kojo Koram’s The Next Fix examines the transformation of drug policy and the commodification of criminalized substances into billion-dollar industries, from cannabis legalization to psychedelic biotech ventures. Tracing connections between Angola prison in Louisiana and Silicon Valley’s psychedelic boom, Koram investigates how legalization has created new markets while incarceration rates remain disproportionately high among marginalized communities. The book combines reportage, political analysis, and testimony to expose the relationship between drugs, capitalism, and structural inequality in the twenty-first century. Rather than advocating for or against legalization, Koram offers a critical analysis of how contemporary economies perpetually seek ‘fixes’—economic and otherwise—while racial and class disparities persist in enforcement and access. Published by Verso Books, it engages directly with political economy and capitalist restructuring, core concerns within the dark alternative intellectual sphere.

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