Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year
Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year
Nitrous oxide will become a class C drug in the UK and carry up to two years in jail for possession.
There will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide, for example in medical or catering industries. The gas is commonly used as a painkiller and for producing whipped cream in cooking.
So, according to the article, supplying Nitrous for recreational use is already illegal. If it is such a big problem, what is banning possession going to do other than ruin more lives? It is kind of wild that this is the solution they came up with given the history of drug prohibition worldwide and the fact that UK is one of the originators of harm reduction.
Sigh.... making the same mistakes and expecting different results when plenty of research out there shows that treating poverty and depression does more to reduce drug use and other risky/antisocial behaviour than putting people in jail for it.
The article also mentions that the majority of people who use it are between 16 and 24 years old. Great way to end up with hardened criminals down the line.
Most of our political establishment is still in complete denial about the failure of the war on drugs. They keep doubling down on prohibition because they can’t accept it doesn’t work.
I’m not sure what or who it will take to wake up Westminster to the reality. Those few that have tried to change the course, such as David Nutt, have had little success. The Liberal Democrats still have cannabis legalisation as a policy, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they step back from that as they eye up more traditionally Tory seats (if they haven’t already).
I wish they would just make cannabis legal, and then just not make a big thing of it. It's such a non-policy when you think about it, "oh we're going to stop criminalising people who've barely done anything wrong, aren't we wonderful".
They view every policy as something that will either gain them votes or lose them votes so the idea of just doing something quietly is alien to them.
Prohibition works! (for people who profit off the misery of others)
Now double banned for your safety.
It's alright though. All these can users are all white kids. Can't believe this foreign owned government to start a drug war against a race that's not not white
Yaaaay another black market. Just what the government needs, gotta keep the black budget funded.
Who wouldnt want criminals to have a Monopoly on drug trade?
Think kids are going to bother getting NOx once it's illegal? If you're going to be a criminal anyway why not go for some proper drugs? This law will probably stop some and push others onto harder stuff.
I won't miss seeing those cannisters littered around.
Won't miss it because they'll continue to be littered around?
"There will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide" Legitimate just means legal so this sentence is saying it will be legal to use it in a legal way... Pretty stupid
No, but it will be illegal to use it illegally.
Yeah, what's so hard to understand here, duh!
Cannabis is being legalised across America and in Germany. Meanwhile Tories are trying to expand the failed war on drugs
I hate Cruella Braverman.
I feel like it's actually kind of already an illicit substance and therefore illegal.
So at this point they're just making laws to make things that are already illegal more illegal but it doesn't matter because none of them are enforced anyway.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The government's decision to make possession a crime goes against recommendations from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which advised against new laws to ban nitrous oxide.
Announcing the law change on Tuesday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said people in the UK were "fed up with yobs abusing drugs in public spaces and leaving behind a disgraceful mess for others to clean up".
The government's crime and policing minister Chris Philp said: "There is no question that abusing laughing gas is dangerous to people's health and it is paramount we take decisive action before the situation gets worse.
Prof David Nutt, from Imperial College London's department of medicine, previously said there was around about one death per year in the UK from around one million nitrous oxide users.
Repeated hits of nitrogen dioxide can deplete body levels of an important vitamin called B12, which, in turn, can cause permanent nerve damage.
It can affect both the spinal cord and the nerves in arms and legs, causing loss of feeling, abnormal sensations and muscle weakness or even full paralysis.
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How will this affect airsofters?
Airsoft uses green gas (propane), CO2 or compressed air.
Don't they use CO2?
Maybe for the guns.
I need Nos. One of these big ones. Actually, make that 2. And Harry, I need it by tonight.
So long patisserie chefs
Is this the same NOS used to give dragsters a boost? Ok, that is illegal on most streets but a legitimate use on certain tracks.
This is about its use as a drug, rather than its use in racing.
Also, I'd imagine racing NOS isn't as pure as the food-grade NOS people use recreationally
Genuine No Stupid Question: Doesn't this gaz Affect like the Nerve System which means that it kills slowly people? Compare to something like Cannabis which temporarily only alters the sense but does not damage the body?
I have no problem with this. Honestly, as others have said, here in Australia, tired of seeing dumped canisters, and it is clear that its a problem which is growing out of control, and its a problem which companies are exploiting for profit.