The new Drug War Facts Podcast is online! This week: President Richard Nixon talks with Art Linkletter about drugs and how alcohol is better than marijuana; research shows blacks more likely to be arrested than whites; school drug testing ineffective. Listen, download, and subscribe!

Issue In Focus

The new Monitoring the Future Survey results for 2013 were released recently.

In discussing the new data in a video released on YouTube, Dr. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said this: “If we compare the numbers that were, for example, in 2000 regular users, and now in 2013, we have seen increases in those numbers. But in 2000, at the 2000 level of 9 THC was at least half of the levels that we observe now, at least half. So that means that not just were there less kids taking the drug regularly, but even those that were taking it regularly were taking a much less potent drug.”

The new Drug War/Drug Policy Facts podcast is dedicated to the 55,014 people now in state prison serving time for drug possession. This week: a new prisoner report; survey shows majority support for marijuana legalization; Playing Safe(ly) with Eddie Einbinder; harm reduction & drug user organizing with Ruth Kanatser; and talking weed with Mickey Martin. Download and subscribe from http://www.podcastgarden.com/episode/drug-policy-facts-9_8866

The new Drug War Facts newsletter is online! You can read it at http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/3519#sthash.sRr8xXH3.dpbs

The new Drug Policy Facts podcast is now online! Listen to the podcast or subscribe at http://www.podcastgarden.com/podcast/drugwarfacts. New editions are posted each week.