“What is the future we dream of? It is tearing up the drug war by the root. And to me, the roots are in capitalism” – Garth Mullins

One person’s now is another person’s future. In times of crisis making the future becomes necessary. In 2013, it would have seemed incredibly unlikely that Canada would legalize cannabis. Now in 2021, drug policy activists in Vancouver, including Garth Mullins, have been involved in providing an alternative drug supply of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, through a co-operative model in Vancouver.

We go off the rails and into outer space this episode. We talk about drugs, past, present, and of course, future. Sci-Fi writer, Ursula Le Guin once said that, “Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. Predictions are uttered by prophets…” and so to does our conversation, embody the now, and the now so far off in the distant.

We experiment with a new theme for the show, “Would you do this drug?”

Edited by Marcel Rambo

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Notes:

[1] Mark Fisher (2009) Capitalist Realism

[2] We reference Silvia Federici’s interview on The Dig https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/silvia-federici-on-women-and-capitalism/

[3] Learn more about the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) https://www.dulf.ca/

[4] Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Mars Trilogy” is a series of future-thinking socialist fiction