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Drug policy reform protest outside UN headquarters, NYC, April 2016
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Free Culture Radio
An examination of drugs, drug cultures, and the influence of drugs on society

 

Drugs in society and society on drugs

Third Wednesday of each month from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Free Culture Radio is an examination of drugs, drug cultures, and the ineluctable, indelible, and indispensable influence of drugs on society. Free Culture Radio neither promotes the use of any drugs nor condemns people for being involved in drugs. To the extent that drug use presents problems for individuals or society, those problems are made worse and more intractable when people who use drugs are treated as “others” and ignored, stigmatized, and even brutalized.

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Decolonizing Coca

Airs at: Wed, 11/20/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Decolonizing Coca. The nations of Colombia and Bolivia held an event at the United Nations in New York on November 7th to challenge the negative connotation attributed to the coca plant. The event was entitled "Beyond Declassification:... Read more

Recovery and Community

Airs at: Wed, 10/16/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Recovery and Community. According to its website, the Recovery Cafe Network, established in 2016, is “comprised of Recovery Cafés committed to serving people who have experienced trauma and the results of trauma like homelessness, subs... Read more

Kicking Nixon Around

Airs at: Wed, 09/18/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: A conversation with drug policy activist and researcher Kurtis Hanna. In 2002, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Shafer Commission, I did some research on the report and Nixon. Back then, to listen to any of the Nixon tape... Read more

A Conversation with NORML Board Chair Dan Viets

Airs at: Wed, 08/21/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: A Conversation with NORML Board Chair Dan Viets. This month on Free Culture host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with attorney and civil rights advocate Dan Viets, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Organization for ... Read more

A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins in Ireland

Airs at: Wed, 07/17/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins in Ireland. The government of the Republic of Ireland formed a Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use in 2023 to quote consider the legislative, policy and operational changes Ireland could make to signif... Read more

The FDA's Agony Over Ecstasy

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: FDA’s Agony Over Ecstasy. The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee met recently and rejected a new drug application for MDMA-Assisted Therapy which had been submitted by Lykos Therapeutics. The Co... Read more

Medical Cannabis in the Time of Corporate Legalization

Airs at: Wed, 05/15/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Medical Cannabis in the Time of Corporate Legalization. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Anthony Taylor, co-founder and Legislative Director of Compassionate Oregon. Read more

Did The Biden Pot Pardons Go Far Enough?

Airs at: Wed, 04/17/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Did the Biden Pot Pardons Go Far Enough? Students for Sensible Drug Policy kicked off its #420WeekOfUnity with a news conference on April 15 entitled Whom Did the Biden Pardons Help—And Did They Go Far Enough? We hear from SSDP Execut... Read more

Through The Policy Loophole

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Through the Policy Loophole. Drugs, like so many other things, were much simpler in the Twentieth Century. On this month’s Free Culture Radio, host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with Alyssa Harlow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cl... Read more

De Facto or De Jure

Airs at: Wed, 02/21/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: De Facto or De Jure. The drug war is fundamentally unsustainable. We keep throwing more and more money into the effort, made all kinds of minor repairs to the system to try and keep it going like treatment alternatives to incarceration... Read more