Bad Trip

November, 2000

the DEA honors the drug warWashington, D.C. is a city of museums. Most are majestic marble edifices symbolizing freedom. Then there's the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum and Visitors Center, which opened last year to celebrate the opposite of freedom---the government's war on drugs. It's situated in the DEA headquarters at a Virginia office park, next to a shopping mall, facing a freeway. Dignified.While the Smithsonian offers open access, the DEA requires an appointment. Because the muse...