Doug McVay

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Editor, public policy researcher/analyst, journalist

Host of Free Culture Radio, which airs on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7 pm. Please check out the Free Culture Radio page on Facebook and give it a like!


Doug McVay is an editor, journalist, researcher, and social justice advocate. He first became active in drug policy reform efforts when he organized a NORML chapter at the University of Iowa in 1983.

At KBOO, Doug volunteers in the News and Public Affairs departments, where he reports, does interviews, and produces public affairs programs including Century of Lies, Free Culture Radio, and the occasional edition of Prison Pipeline. He's been a producer on the evening news and has from time to time co-anchored the evening news.

He is employed by the Real Reporting Foundation and serves as Editor of Health Systems Facts and Drug Policy Facts.

Twitter: @DougMcVay.

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#SupportDontPunish

Airs at: Sun, 06/25/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week we remember a good friend, the drug policy reformer and marijuana activist Mickey Martin, and present an interview with him from 2013. Plus, June 26th is the Global Day of Action for Drug Policy Reform, so we speak with Fergal Eccles of Students for Sensible Drug ... Read more

Unbroken Brain - The Full Monty

Airs at: Wed, 06/21/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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Maia Szalavitz is an award-winning journalist and author who covers addiction and neuroscience. Her latest book, the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction uses her own story of recovery from heroin and cocaine addictio... Read more

Century Of Lies for June 18, 2017

Airs at: Sun, 06/18/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week: Congressional appropriators question the Department of Justice about drug policy and medical marijuana, plus members of Congress re-introduce legislation to protect medical marijuana patients. Read more

Southwest of Salem

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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In 1994, four women in San Antonio, Texas, were arrested and charged with heinous crimes. The women -- working class Latina lesbians -- were accused of raping two young girls, They were tried, convicted in 1997, and sentenced to decades in state prison. Just one problem: T... Read more

Ireland Discusses Drug Decriminalization Part Two

Airs at: Sun, 06/11/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week we hear more from a debate on May 31 in the Irish Senate on a bill to decriminalize simple personal possession of drugs, with speakers including Senator Mark Daly, Senator Victor Boyhan, Ireland's Drug Czar Catherine Byrne, and Senator Lynn Ruane. Read more

Ireland Debates Decriminalization of Drug Possession

Airs at: Sun, 06/04/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week we hear from a debate in the Irish Senate regarding the Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017, featuring Senator Lynn Ruane, Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, and Senator Senator Niall O Donnghaile. Read more

#Patients2017 Part Two

Airs at: Sun, 05/28/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century Of Lies, more from the Patients Out of Time National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics, with attorney and veteran Brandon Wyatt and physician Dr. Rachel Knox, plus California Assemblyman Ken Cooley on regulation of medical and non-medical can... Read more

Live at Patients Out of Time

Airs at: Sun, 05/21/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week we come to you live from the Patients Out of Time National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics #Patients2017, with Mary Lynn Mathre, Laramie Silber, Mara Felsen, Sam Sabzehzar, and Amanda Reiman, plus Fred Gardner with a Tribute to the Spirit of Propositi... Read more

Unbroken Brain

Airs at: Wed, 05/17/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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Maia Szalavitz is an award-winning author and journalist who covers addiction and neuroscience. Her latest book, the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction uses her own story of recovery from heroin and cocaine addictio... Read more

Reagan Redux

Airs at: Sun, 05/14/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week: Attorney General J. Beauregard Sessions III talks drug war, while journalist Maia Szalavitz talks sense. Attorney General Memo on Department Charging and Sentencing Policy   Read more