Displaying the War on Drugs

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 Read More …

Suitcase Full of Smuggled Marijuana, 1940’s

‘Detective Lieutenants R.S. Hamilton, E.J. Henry, and E.C. Biffle with suspect Adolfo Campos and a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana’, Los Angeles, California – Early 1940’s      

Narcotic Arsenal, 1957

‘Deputy Sheriff Earl Talbot and Deputy Sheriff Woody Caruth posing with arsenal taken from home in a narcotic raid.’  Los Angeles, California May 13, 1957    

Sniffing Nike, 1994

‘Nike’, 1994 U.S. Customs Service/ Treasury Department issued Drug Sniffing Dogs trading card  

This Yards Gone to Pot, 1935

“A San Franciscan was scheduled to go into court today to explain why he was growing marijuana in the front yard of his home. Rinaldo Gotti was arrested by State Narcotic Inspector Bernard Blonder and Agents Ed Oliva and William Read More …

Intercept at Falcon Lake, 1969

‘At sunset, Customs agents, armed with shotguns, scour the darkening waters of Falcon Lake, looking for marijuana smugglers during Operation Intercept.’  Falcon Lake, Texas 1969  

Six Bags of Marijuana, 1969

‘Frank J. Long, custom agent with six bags of confiscated marijuana’, in San Francisco, California October 16, 1969      

Washtenaw Grass, 1954

‘Washtenaw county vice squad officers examine some of the more than 200 pounds of marijuana plants confiscated yesterday. The plants, found growing wild on two farms within a 15-mile radius of Ann Arbor, were trucked to the Willow Village Sheriff’s Read More …

The Devil’s Weed, 1949

‘The Devil’s Weed’ movie poster.  The movie originally titled ‘Wild Weed’ was made to capitalize on Lila Leeds 1948 marijuana arrest with Robert Mitchum and was released with many names including ‘She Shoulda Said No!‘.   1949