Jamie Brownlee & Kevin Walby Book Launch (Psychedelic Capitalism)

Join Jamie Brownlee and Kevin Walby for the launch of Psychedelic Capitalism (Fernwood Publishing).

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781773637310/jamie-brownlee/psychedelic-capitalism

This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/0u9LpIAC7p8

Psychedelics have long been sanctioned as dangerous substances. Today, psychedelics are enjoying a new found appeal, even being idealized as wonder drugs. Offering a critical view of these developments, Psychedelic Capitalism locates this shift in the context of corporate capture, medicalization, and the war on drugs. Brownlee and Walby argue that today’s “psychedelic renaissance” is entrenching systems of social inequality, limiting access and affordability, and expanding the reach of drug war surveillance and criminalization. The authors point to what could be gained from a just and equitable psychedelic future rooted in the public interest.

Jamie Brownlee teaches at Carleton University in the areas of Canadian and international political economy, corporate crime, environmental policy, and climate change. He is the author of Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy and Academia, Inc.: How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities.

Kevin Walby is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg. He is co-author of Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution. He is also the director of the Centre for Access to Information and Justice and co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.

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