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...heroin. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was caught by surprise by the new drug not long after it had been embarrassed by the spread of crack. The administration quickly used new discretionary powers to outlaw MDMA, pointing to the private labs and club use as evidence of abuse. dea officials also cited rudimentary studies showing that ecstasy users had vomited and experienced blood-pressure fluctuations...
...Still, a DEA source theorizes, even as a mentor, Gravano "seems to have forgotten all he learned. He just did everything wrong. He used his own house for meetings and to store drugs. He used his own telephone without even trying to use code words. He drove a flashy Lexus that made him stand out. He left records of the transactions around. He used his wife to monitor the money and kids to run the operation. He prided himself on being a mobster. But he sure forgot what John Gotti taught...
...19th century and extend to the bloody confrontations with Colombian cocaine cartels in our day. Elizabeth and 15 of her classmates from Arlington's Washington-Lee High School followed this narrative arc with the help of Fred Smith, who, like most of the museum's docents, is a retired DEA special agent...
There's even a poster for Reefer Madness, the earnestly lunatic, 1930s antimarijuana film that was revived in the irony-drenched '60s and '70s. "We wanted to show how hokey [the movie] was," says Sean Fearns, of the DEA public-affairs section. "It was so naive to think that this kind of thing would keep kids off drugs...
Needless to say, the exhibit is otherwise irony-free, the DEA not being known as the wackiest of the federal law-enforcement agencies. The tour ends in a mini-theater that plays those particularly gruesome antidrug TV ads that we're used to seeing these days, with troops of hollow-eyed addicts testifying to the dark side of drugs. It forms quite a contrast with the psychedelic posters and love beads in the head-shop window. And it's effective too, at least according to most of the kids on a recent visit. "You have to get their interest before...