Cocaine goes underground

The Harrison Act didn't quite do what its sponsor had hoped. Cocaine use grew in popularity in the early 20th Century. In 1934, Cole Porter celebrated coke in his hit song "I Get a Kick Out of You," whose lyrics include the following lines: "Some get a kick from cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff that would bore me terrifically, too. Yet, I get a kick out of you."

Charlie Chaplin (shown here) did his part too, with his character accidentally taking a lot of cocaine in the 1936 film "Modern Times."

Credit: Modern Times