{"product_id":"the-next-fix-the-winners-and-losers-in-the-future-of-drugs-9781399807722","title":"The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Next Fix \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how the legalisation of drugs is gearing up to be one of the great swindles of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003eAs countries around the world turn away from a century-long War on Drugs, we are seeing the slow decline of a system of drug control which resulted in the futile brutalisation of poor people across the world, especially poor people of colour, all while issues of addiction, impoverishment and dangerous drug deaths continued to sky-rocket. But, as \u003ci\u003eThe Next Fix\u003c\/i\u003e will show, what is being established in the aftermath of the drug war is actually threatening to reinforce many of the same inequalities that were intensified by prohibition. About 1% of the current legal cannabis dispensary store owners in the US are Black. Across many of the states that have legalised cannabis, people with drug convictions are denied a business licence or working in the industry.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis means that the racial minorities who were disproportionately arrested and imprisoned during the drug war are now in danger of being punished twice: once by prohibition and again by exclusion from the emerging multibillion dollar market in legal drugs. Instead of advancing the course of social justice, drug law reform is helping the hedge funds, tech companies, oil companies and tobacco companies investing in drugs to get even richer, encouraging a commercialised legal drug industry that is likely to only accelerate the social problems associated with substance abuse.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Going beyond the legal cannabis market to look at everything from the growing pharmaceutical\/therapeutic use of psychedelics to the interconnected worlds of high finance and the cocaine trade, from the association of khat with narco-terrorism to the tobacco companies trying to use legal drugs to rebrand themselves as wellness companies, this book will be taking the readers behind the scenes of this new frontier of global capitalism. Entering the world of drug policy reform, which brings together contrasting characters from yoga instructors to traditional Rastafarian leaders, investment bankers to policing reform activists, over the chapters Kojo Koram will show that although we might be living through the end of the War on Drugs, the brave new world emerging out of it may, in practice, still look a lot like the old one.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781399807722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 02 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: John Murray Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.4(H)x15.3(L)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eKojo Koram is an author and Professor, teaching at the School of Law at Loughborough University. Born in Accra, Ghana and raised on Merseyside, he is now based in London. In addition to his academic writing, he has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (John Murray, 2022). His first book \u003ci\u003eUncommon Wealth\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e book of the year.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lucid and compelling guide\u003c\/b\u003e to the new territory in which yesterday's banned substances are today's wellness aids or pharmaceutical miracles . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Next Fix\u003c\/i\u003e argues persuasively that we stand at a crucial inflection point where we have a chance to replace the monopolies and exploitation of the drug trade with regulatory systems that promote local supply chains, compassionate healthcare and global justice -- Mike Jay, author of FREE RADICALS\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ebeautifully written yet rigorous\u003c\/b\u003e exploration of one of the thorniest issues of our time -- Vicky Spratt, author of TENANTS\u003cbr\u003eKoram tells the stories of those whose lives have been destroyed by the drug war and the heroic efforts to replace it with a system of care and economic transformation. It is \u003cb\u003eboth a prescription for a better future and a cautionary tale of the power of capital to up end that vision\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alex S. Vitale, author of THE END OF POLICING\u003cbr\u003eUrgent and compelling, \u003ci\u003eThe Next Fix\u003c\/i\u003e forces us to confront the inconvenient truth that the failed War on Drugs is on course to be replaced not by an approach based on compassion and justice, but by the same corporate monopolies and exploitation that have already caused such devastation and inequality.  In this deeply necessary book, Kojo Koram offers a clear-eyed, evidence-based guide to the complex and often contradictory world of drugs and drug reform -\u003cb\u003e this is essential reading if we're to have any hope of designing a world that operates on a different logic\u003c\/b\u003e -- Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKojo Koram is an unrivaled translator of legal complexity into vivid prose\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Next Fix\u003c\/i\u003e is no exception. This book provides \u003cb\u003ea bracing look at one of the deadliest interactions\u003c\/b\u003e: what happens when you mix drugs, prohibition, and the forces of global capitalism -- Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, author of THE HIDDEN GLOBE\u003cbr\u003eDeeply researched, elegantly narrated and with a careful focus on human consequences, this eye-opening book brings\u003cb\u003e sharp, sensitive and urgent \u003c\/b\u003eanalysis to a much misunderstood subject -- Rachel Shabi, author of OFF-WHITE\u003cbr\u003eWhat I love most about Kojo's writing - and there is a lot to love - is how he moves so seamlessly between the complexities and injustices of the global political economy and its legal infrastructure, and everyday experiences of the real world. \u003ci\u003eThe Next Fix\u003c\/i\u003e is an \u003cb\u003eeye-opening and often shocking \u003c\/b\u003etale of all that's wrong with how we govern drugs, who is deemed illicit, and what harms those choices wreak on the lives of ordinary people around the world. It also shows us that things don't have to be this way. \u003cb\u003eA must-read for anyone who's ever questioned the war on drugs and their new, legal markets\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rosie Collington, co-author of THE BIG CON\u003cbr\u003eA compelling and deeply researched exploration of the \"brave new world\" of drugs . . . \u003cb\u003eBeautifully written, ambitious, and empirically rich\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Next Fix\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the changing dynamics of drug regulation and their human costs, and it makes a powerful, persuasive case for full decriminalisation-for dismantling the punitive machinery that has defined global drug policy for over a century -- Insa Lee Koch, Chair Professor of British Cultures, University of Sankt Gallen\u003cbr\u003eKojo is a fantastic scholar, here he continues to show how many common assumptions about drug use and law enforcement simply cannot be understood but through the lenses of class, race and empire. It is only once we account for such things that we can make sense of what otherwise might seem like completely contradictory, even illogical, policies, ideas and applications. \u003cb\u003eKojo's case is clear and to my mind irrefutable\u003c\/b\u003e -- Akala, author of NATIVES","brand":"Kojo Koram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49077129019609,"sku":"9781399807722","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781399807722.jpg?v=1786457223","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-next-fix-the-winners-and-losers-in-the-future-of-drugs-9781399807722","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}