In Brazilian literature, there is no equivalent to the so-called Latin American narco-narrative, not even examples of exploring the transgressive experience under the influence of drugs. Nonetheless, some narratives have recently appeared in Brazilian fiction that do not address the issue of drug trafficking from the point of view of an illegal business, its reality permeated by violence, and its expression marked by the savage capitalism of the globalised world. On the contrary, these narratives assume the perspective of small retail sales and their overlapping with the contraventional life of marijuana users and consumers. In this short essay, we will discuss this fiction as a cultural work that explores how the drug trade penetrates the everyday life of users and, in a more problematic sense, imposes structures of power and violence on the most precarious communities and the conditions of possibility for thinking, feeling, and acting in the face of this social and economic logic. In a way, we reconsider Jane Thompkins’ idea (1985) that we should read novels outside the canon, looking in their narratives for cultural work in terms of exercises of other patterns of behaviour and resistance in the face of the social challenges of a historical moment. From the perspective of what the author in that study called Sensational Designs, we propose to interpret these “designs” in terms of affective topographies in which narratives dynamically form constellations in which the social order is redefined. Thus, fictions can be read as examples of a culture that thinks of itself by coordinating, dramatising, and proposing actions in the face of the problems that define a given historical moment.