DEA Museum at The Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Arlington, Virginia
Displaying The War On Drugs
In 1999 the DEA decided to put some of those tax dollars to work opening a museum all about, of course, themselves.
The public DEA Museum is housed in the lobby of the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Admission is free to learn all about the war on drugs, well kind of.
Entrance into the DEA Museum, “Who’s affected by drugs? You are!”
As you walk in the entrance, the DEA let’s you know exactly who their suspects are in the War on Drugs…
“You Are!”
Are you as confused as me as to why they included that poor dog? Another victim and death in a overzealous raid perhaps…
Walking the museum you are confronted with familiar sites such as the friendly local head shop circa 1970’s.
“An American Head Shop circa 1970’s” at the DEA Museum
Along with scary display’s of legal American business’s are the remnants of decades of busting it’s own citizens.
Pipes, clothing, guns and even a confiscated Hell’s Angels motorcycle are on display as war trophy’s of the Drug War…
Display of homemade bongs with a ISO II by D Gold
If you look close they even have a ISO II by D Gold chilling in the display case, quite the collector piece now.
And what stoner collection would be complete without the homemade Mayo hookah!
Homemade bongs including the Mayo Hookah
Next to a display with an ominous rusted metal door with a peep window labeled “An American Crack House circa 1980’s”, sits an odd addition to the displays.
A reproduction of a storefront to a Medical Marijuana Dispensary…
“An American Marijuana Dispensary circa 2000’s” Display at the DEA Museum
Labeled as “‘SK’s Herbal’, An American Marijuana Dispensary circa 2000’s” the display is just a typical store front found in a strip mall, often used by ‘legal’ medical marijuana dispensary’s in ‘legal’ States.
You are quickly reminded that these are indeed “criminal enterprises” serving and run by criminals in society according to the DEA…
As sad as it is for an American agency to attack the medical needs of its own citizens to which they serve while referring to them as criminals for doing so, there is a much darker insinuation made at the museum…
9/11 display at the DEA Museum
As you walk up to some pieces of twisted metal and concrete, you realize the significance of the rubble. The display is indeed debris of the World Trade Center from the 9/11 attacks, but what are they doing in the DEA Museum?
The DEA tells the public the terrorist attacks of 9/11 came from drug ‘Traffickers’ making this a Drug War attack…
I can’t even make this shit up….
(This was a temporary display and I believe has since been taken down.)
The La Santa Muerte Skull Statue at the DEA Museum (why not slander a religious folk saint in a government building)
Of course by the exit of the museum they try to appeal one last time to your dwindling sense of logic by adding a DEA Gift Shop.
Selling everything you can think of from shirts, cups, stuffed animals and even a DEA golf bag to show the other golfers on the course just how much of a douche you really are…
DEA Museum Gift Shop
One of the items sold in the DEA gift shop is a bumper sticker that reads “Get off the pot”, funny I was thinking the same thing…
‘Get off the pot’ bumper sticker sold in the DEA gift shop