We celebrate the release of Kojo Koram's book The Next Fix 12/11/2026 6.30pm @ Drop City Books

Drop City Books Author Party, KOJO KORAM AUTHOR OF THE NEXT FIX

📅 Date: 12th NOVEMBER 2026

DOORS - 6.30pm

EVENT START - 7:00pm

📍 Venue: Drop City Books, 74-78 Piccadilly, Hanley, ST1 1HX

⚡️NOTE THIS TICKET DOES NOT INCLUDE A COPY OF THE BOOK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kojo 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 New Statesman, Guardian and New York Times. He is the author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray, 2022). His first book 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.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In The Next Fix, award-winning author and academic Kojo Koram travels from Scotland to Colombia, Ghana to the United States, to uncover the forces reshaping the global drug landscape. Moving between glossy corporate cannabis expos to grassroots activist campaigns and the question of reparations, he traces the growing tension between movements fighting for justice after decades of prohibition and the finance-world race to profit from a newly legal frontier. Will drug reform finally undo the racial violence, environmental destruction and public health failures of the War on Drugs? Or will it simply open a new chapter in global capitalism, creating a smooth transition from cartel barons to Wall Street oligopolies?

Urgent, moving and deeply reported, The Next Fix asks whether the War on Drugs is really over – or merely changing its chemical formula.

"Kojo's case is clear and to my mind irrefutable”

AKALA

“Essential reading”

CAROLINE LUCAS

The Next Fix 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

ACCESSIBILITY INFO:

Please get in touch (hello@dropcitybooks.com) if you have any specific access requirements, we will always do our best to accomodate them.

The shop is wheelchair accessible, with a double wide front door.

This event will involve sitting on a chair, with comfort breaks whenever you need them. We encourage standing up and stretching, fidgeting, wiggling around, this isn't school, humans need to move.

The toilets are on the same floor as the venue and are gender neutral. They are not fully wheelchair accesible, we're sorry it's not ideal, but we do have access to our neighbour's wheelchair accesible toilet across the pedestrianised street.

There will be amplified sound at low levels.

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