Daily Archives: March 12, 2014


Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 11 March 2014 Quick march – cocaine used in the First World War and criminalised soon after In 1914 the British Army issued ‘Forced March’ tablets containing cocaine to troops. In 1920, cocaine was banned in the UK under the Dangerous Drugs Act. Much of the pressure for the ban came from stories of ‘crazed soldiers’ who had been exposed to the […]