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Drug Agency's New Museum!
Posted by FoM on May 06, 1999 at 06:10:30 PT
Source: Washington Post
The United States government's newest museum displays hash pipes, hookahs, bongs, American-flag rolling papers and several bags of marijuana. It also has grubby old syringes, bent spoons, a pill bottle labeled "heroin," and a grisly photo of a junkie killed by an overdose. Plus a diorama titled "An American Head Shop, Circa 1970s."
It's a museum about dope. And why not? America has museums devoted to just about everything--the Jesse James Museum, the Liberace Museum, the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum, the Museum of Whiskey History, the Hot Dog Hall of Fame. So it was probably inevitable that somebody would create a museum devoted to two of America's multi-billion-dollar obsessions--getting wasted and trying to stop people from getting wasted. It's called the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum and Visitors Center and it opens Monday at the DEA headquarters in Pentagon City. A modest exhibit, it fills a long, narrow 2,200-square-foot room containing scores of photos and a fair amount of drugs. It set the DEA back $350,000 (in "appropriated funds," not a stack of hundreds stashed in a dealer's sock drawer). The permanent exhibit, "Illegal Drugs in America: A Modern History," is a delightfully graphic reminder that America's intense love-hate relationship with intoxication goes back further than we realize.Click the above link for the full article!
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on May 06, 1999 at 08:46:41 PT
Happiness Must Be a Sin!
Last night I watch a show on Mummys. They have been able to prove that Drugs were widely used and traded freely. They even showed containers that they would store their Opium in. We are the only century that has made an issue out of drugs it seems, except the nuns and chocolate! They made chocolate illegal because the nuns were spending too much time cooking in the kitchen and not praying and the chocolate made them too happy! It really is something when you start looking at the big picture!
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Comment #1 posted by oldlady#420 on May 06, 1999 at 07:20:35 PT
Just like one of my fellow's said I'd like to give
a stool sample...LOL. The goverment has the audacity to errect a museum in honor of what? How many people died because they couldn't get their medical marijuana, or maybe somebody needed their pain killers but the FDA and the DEA were to busy in their doctor's offices. Give me a break. 
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