'Doc Ray' spent years cultivating illicit marijuana in California. Now he's Roanoke College's first cannabis professor.

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'Doc Ray' spent years cultivating illicit marijuana in California. Now he's Roanoke College's first cannabis professor.

The newest professor at Roanoke College is known as “Doc Ray,” which would not be unusual in a campus setting, except for one thing: Doc Ray is not a Ph.D. Doc Ray doesn’t have any kind of college degree, at all, actually. Doc Ray — more formally, Ray Fowler — earned his name in the marijuana fields of Northern California, where he built a reputation for knowing how to grow cannabis and use it for medicinal applications long before the state leg…