Fund Drive Special: Drugs and American Capitalism

Published: Oct. 2, 2023, noon

Americans as a population have an usually large appetite for psychoactive drugs, whether legal or illegal. And American history has been marked by periodic moral panics over drug use and normalization or legalization, as we\u2019re experiencing right now. What is it about US society that makes drug use simultaneously so appealing and reviled? Writer and scholar Benjamin Fong weighs in.\nThe post Fund Drive Special: Drugs and American Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.