Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. David Franklin
Musto was an American expert on U.S. drug policy and the War on Drugs
who served as a government adviser on the subject during the Presidency
of Jimmy Carter and who wrote extensively on the history of licit and
illicit drugs and the process under which many of them were placed under
governmental control. Musto was born January 8, 1936, in Tacoma,
Washington and earned his undergraduate degree in classics from the
University of Washington in 1956. He attended Yale University on a
fellowship, earning a master's degree in the history of science and
medicine in 1961. Musto earned his medical degree from the University of
Washington School of Medicine, which was followed by an internship at
Pennsylvania Hospital and a residency in psychiatry at Yale
