For the lowdown on getting high, visit the DEA Museum

This is the seventh in a series of weekly guides to museums you might not have discovered.

Beyond the DARE program, cheesy after-school specials, and Nancy Reagan imploring the masses to "Just Say No," some of us grow up learning very little about the breadth and depth of global drug abuse. Illegal drug use dates as far back as the Opium Wars of the early 1800s, and the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum in Arlington uses those conflicts as a jumping off point to explore drug abuse in the United States. Documenting 150 years of illegal drug use in America, the DEA museum covers the history of drug use and the science of how drugs affect the human body.

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Peter Wallsten 06 Aug, 2011

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