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Addiction Museum Joins Roster of Popular Sites!
Posted by FoM on May 10, 1999 at 10:49:08 PT
Source: SF Gate
WASHINGTONAmericans, who flock to museums by the millions, can add a unique site to their itinerary: a museum on addiction. The Drug Enforcement Administration has put together a public exhibit at its suburban Virginia headquarters, tracing addiction back to the Civil War and beyond.
It shows off the Tommy gun and hand grenades that Narcotics Bureau agents carried in the 1930s. From the other side of the battle is the booby trap that an ingenious marijuana farmer in Thailand installed to protect his crop, and a trafficker's diamond-encrusted gun. There's also a coroner's report, almost a century old, on a 19-month-old girl who died from an overdose of ``soothing syrup'' -- apparently laced with opium. Exhibits tell how drug-taking declined in the first half of the century until attention turned in the 1930s to the marijuana -- and later, heroin -- associated with such jazz figures as Red Rodney, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker. Click the above link to read the whole article!
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