Can’t say I’m surprised even if it’s been used recreationally and at raves for as long as I can remember (I’m 39) the visible usage in the past 6 years or so has skyrocketed.
That said it doesn’t address the real issue at all it will just shift the problem on to the next thing like it always does it’s not really a surprise that is used so much after banning the reagents for making good quality cheap mdma, magic mushrooms, and pretty much any other psychoactive substance, if people want to get high, they’ll find a way.
Just make it impossible to buy without proving you need it (catering etc.). Mark each batch with a unique number and keep track of what is sold to whom.
The biggest crackdown on anti social behaviour should be random body searches on the middle classes, who perpetuate drug culture by their own habits.
Those earning £40k+ are the very people buying cocaine as though it’s an appetiser, a right, an accepted pick me up.
They are the ones responsible for international drug trafficking, for black on black knife crime, for the entire black economy.
Make drug searches normalised for that demographic and then you will see a domino effect on that entire culture led issue.
Very much believe that if you want to get high then do what you must. I just wish they weren’t manky bastards and left the wee silver bottles everywhere.
Take a carrier bag with me when I go in the woods and damn near every time I’ll be able to fill it up with them.
Scaffy bastards.
Always finding cannisters near my house. Don’t really care other than the little shites leaving the waste everywhere.
Do some real drugs instead imo
People have been point at ministers in the street and laughing. A review has decided that this could only be due to Nitros Oxide abuse.
Those cream whippet things are dogshit anyway. Most of the ‘high’ people get, huffing in and out of a balloon for a ludicrous amount of time, is largely just oxygen deprivation.
I remember when clubs would sell balloons filled from a big tank of medical grade nitrous, now that was fun.
I doubt the Tories would make this illegal. Plebs taking stupid pills, they love hat shit.
I don’t care about people breathing balloons. I do care about the unholy amount of canisters I have to walk by on my way to the shop most days.
Ah yes, lets ban a thing that some people do together and that doesn’t really effect anyone else at all because it’s ‘anti-social’, just like cannabis is ‘just as dangerous’ apparently as crack or meth.
This crackdown by the current government is a transparent attempt to distract people from everything else going on with the party. Fun fact; did you know that Sunak the tax dodger is twice as rich as the King? I didn’t until yesterday.
Is it the escape from reality that is the antisocial behaviour in question? That would make sense, but is never stated, and instead extraneous issued are always the ones raised.
However, if the antisocial behaviour is, say, the littering of canisters, then instead of yet more erosion of civil liberties, would not a sane response be to crack down on *littering*?
Why not legalise it? Get it taxed and distributed through official channels? /tongue-in-cheek
I’ve heard that you can get doubly high if you put the empties in the bin. All the cool kids are doing that.
It is just so blatant, a corner shop near me sells packs of what is apparently whipped cream supplies but in large amounts and to anyone. They aren’t supplying home chefs. It is rather sad and actually a bit strange – I remember as a teenager you could get “legal highs” like poppers which were sold as insect repellent. There is glue and butane and stuff like that but it was seen as a bit skanky. I see these nitrous cannisters everywhere, surely it can’t be that fun. Just have a few beers ffs.
Maybe force a deposit scheme. If each canister had a £1 return reward the streets would be clean in hours. Banning a catering tool would be the fucking absurd option, which is of course why the cretins in charge would consider it.
People who want to do drugs will do drugs, why do we keep wasting time in the symptom not the cause?
For those wondering, it’s called hippy crack for a reason but yes, it is, if you are so inclined, good fun. It’s very moreish and delightfully weird but in a relatively subtle way and ends quickly, it’s really no surprise it’s loved by teens. It’s been years but never hard to acquire. When they brought in the generic substance misuse acts you started having to tick a box online to say you weren’t using it recreationally, never any check beyond that.
I live on a quiet country road on the edge of a smallish town, surrounded by fields with a couple of handy gateways where somebody could park up and do…things. For years I’ve been picking up kebab boxes and the odd torn rizla packet, then all of a sudden it was little piles of cannisters. Even with a carful of teens they seemed to be hitting it pretty hard then driving off to do stuff elsewhere. I ended up doing some late night big torch dog walks and things changed for the better, but given round here a bit of weed is largely seen as super edgy/evil beyond words I was a bit shocked at how fast and hard NOS seemed to catch on.
That said I saw a police car this morning for the first time in a year so I’m not sure plod will be doing overmuch about anything locally.
This is like closing public toilets because of drug users.
Don’t ban whipped cream canisters, crack down on cunts being antisocial.
Lately I’ve been seeing more large canisters too…the ones that look like a sodastream gas bottle
Those canisters are for air weapons they can’t ban them
Don’t ban it, make it so if you’re caught dropping one you do something mental like 10 years in prison. That’ll teach them to clean up after themselves. The high only lasts about 30 seconds so it’s not like they’re too fucked to remember to pick them up.
What happened to Theresa May’s psychoactive substances bill?
I thought there were already illegal
So how’s the cost of living crisis and the strikes going guys….. guys….. hello?
So by this logic (and I’m really not saying we should before anyone jumps down my throat) we should ban alcohol too? Cans and bottles left everywhere, broken glass on pavements, not to mention the piss and vomit in town centres on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
This is just another distraction. It will not do anything to help antisocial behaviour, it will just criminalise a lot of kids. Usual tory sticking plaster solution to a problem they care little about.
Is this the same stuff used for Co2 air guns or different?
Never thought I’d err on the side of prohibition but honestly fair fucks, it’s out of hand now.
while we are at , make sure to ban woopy cushions and water guns. gotta crackdown properly!
I went to a festival back in 2019ish and the field where it took place was littered with these. Seemed like everyone and their nan was partaking.
Think the weed me and my friends were enjoying gave us a better high than these.
Because prohibition works for every other drug…..
Bet the organised gangs are rubbing their hands together. Another avenue of revenue.
I wonder how much rave organisers would pay to continue having tanks at their already illegal raves.
I have no interest in laughing gas myself but this is authoritarian and narrow minded, let people have their fun.
If people just cleared up after themselves I don’t really care what they do.
People just love littering in this country, and those little cannisters are no different.
The car park at my old flat was littered with hundreds of the cannisters, there was other litter, but most of that was from the same people.
Losers would pull up 2am to use the cannisters with a bucket of KFC, dump it all out the window and drive off. Absolute losers. I tried reporting them a few times, hope they got fined for littering.
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Nitrous Oxide is no laughing matter.
Can’t say I’m surprised even if it’s been used recreationally and at raves for as long as I can remember (I’m 39) the visible usage in the past 6 years or so has skyrocketed.
That said it doesn’t address the real issue at all it will just shift the problem on to the next thing like it always does it’s not really a surprise that is used so much after banning the reagents for making good quality cheap mdma, magic mushrooms, and pretty much any other psychoactive substance, if people want to get high, they’ll find a way.
Just make it impossible to buy without proving you need it (catering etc.). Mark each batch with a unique number and keep track of what is sold to whom.
The biggest crackdown on anti social behaviour should be random body searches on the middle classes, who perpetuate drug culture by their own habits.
Those earning £40k+ are the very people buying cocaine as though it’s an appetiser, a right, an accepted pick me up.
They are the ones responsible for international drug trafficking, for black on black knife crime, for the entire black economy.
Make drug searches normalised for that demographic and then you will see a domino effect on that entire culture led issue.
Very much believe that if you want to get high then do what you must. I just wish they weren’t manky bastards and left the wee silver bottles everywhere.
Take a carrier bag with me when I go in the woods and damn near every time I’ll be able to fill it up with them.
Scaffy bastards.
Always finding cannisters near my house. Don’t really care other than the little shites leaving the waste everywhere.
Do some real drugs instead imo
People have been point at ministers in the street and laughing. A review has decided that this could only be due to Nitros Oxide abuse.
Those cream whippet things are dogshit anyway. Most of the ‘high’ people get, huffing in and out of a balloon for a ludicrous amount of time, is largely just oxygen deprivation.
I remember when clubs would sell balloons filled from a big tank of medical grade nitrous, now that was fun.
I doubt the Tories would make this illegal. Plebs taking stupid pills, they love hat shit.
I don’t care about people breathing balloons. I do care about the unholy amount of canisters I have to walk by on my way to the shop most days.
Ah yes, lets ban a thing that some people do together and that doesn’t really effect anyone else at all because it’s ‘anti-social’, just like cannabis is ‘just as dangerous’ apparently as crack or meth.
This crackdown by the current government is a transparent attempt to distract people from everything else going on with the party. Fun fact; did you know that Sunak the tax dodger is twice as rich as the King? I didn’t until yesterday.
Is it the escape from reality that is the antisocial behaviour in question? That would make sense, but is never stated, and instead extraneous issued are always the ones raised.
However, if the antisocial behaviour is, say, the littering of canisters, then instead of yet more erosion of civil liberties, would not a sane response be to crack down on *littering*?
Why not legalise it? Get it taxed and distributed through official channels? /tongue-in-cheek
That before or after they turn weed into class A:
https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-64348281.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#
I’ve heard that you can get doubly high if you put the empties in the bin. All the cool kids are doing that.
It is just so blatant, a corner shop near me sells packs of what is apparently whipped cream supplies but in large amounts and to anyone. They aren’t supplying home chefs. It is rather sad and actually a bit strange – I remember as a teenager you could get “legal highs” like poppers which were sold as insect repellent. There is glue and butane and stuff like that but it was seen as a bit skanky. I see these nitrous cannisters everywhere, surely it can’t be that fun. Just have a few beers ffs.
Maybe force a deposit scheme. If each canister had a £1 return reward the streets would be clean in hours. Banning a catering tool would be the fucking absurd option, which is of course why the cretins in charge would consider it.
People who want to do drugs will do drugs, why do we keep wasting time in the symptom not the cause?
For those wondering, it’s called hippy crack for a reason but yes, it is, if you are so inclined, good fun. It’s very moreish and delightfully weird but in a relatively subtle way and ends quickly, it’s really no surprise it’s loved by teens. It’s been years but never hard to acquire. When they brought in the generic substance misuse acts you started having to tick a box online to say you weren’t using it recreationally, never any check beyond that.
I live on a quiet country road on the edge of a smallish town, surrounded by fields with a couple of handy gateways where somebody could park up and do…things. For years I’ve been picking up kebab boxes and the odd torn rizla packet, then all of a sudden it was little piles of cannisters. Even with a carful of teens they seemed to be hitting it pretty hard then driving off to do stuff elsewhere. I ended up doing some late night big torch dog walks and things changed for the better, but given round here a bit of weed is largely seen as super edgy/evil beyond words I was a bit shocked at how fast and hard NOS seemed to catch on.
That said I saw a police car this morning for the first time in a year so I’m not sure plod will be doing overmuch about anything locally.
This is like closing public toilets because of drug users.
Don’t ban whipped cream canisters, crack down on cunts being antisocial.
Lately I’ve been seeing more large canisters too…the ones that look like a sodastream gas bottle
Those canisters are for air weapons they can’t ban them
Don’t ban it, make it so if you’re caught dropping one you do something mental like 10 years in prison. That’ll teach them to clean up after themselves. The high only lasts about 30 seconds so it’s not like they’re too fucked to remember to pick them up.
What happened to Theresa May’s psychoactive substances bill?
I thought there were already illegal
So how’s the cost of living crisis and the strikes going guys….. guys….. hello?
So by this logic (and I’m really not saying we should before anyone jumps down my throat) we should ban alcohol too? Cans and bottles left everywhere, broken glass on pavements, not to mention the piss and vomit in town centres on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
This is just another distraction. It will not do anything to help antisocial behaviour, it will just criminalise a lot of kids. Usual tory sticking plaster solution to a problem they care little about.
Is this the same stuff used for Co2 air guns or different?
Never thought I’d err on the side of prohibition but honestly fair fucks, it’s out of hand now.
while we are at , make sure to ban woopy cushions and water guns. gotta crackdown properly!
I went to a festival back in 2019ish and the field where it took place was littered with these. Seemed like everyone and their nan was partaking.
Think the weed me and my friends were enjoying gave us a better high than these.
Because prohibition works for every other drug…..
Bet the organised gangs are rubbing their hands together. Another avenue of revenue.
I wonder how much rave organisers would pay to continue having tanks at their already illegal raves.
I have no interest in laughing gas myself but this is authoritarian and narrow minded, let people have their fun.
If people just cleared up after themselves I don’t really care what they do.
People just love littering in this country, and those little cannisters are no different.
The car park at my old flat was littered with hundreds of the cannisters, there was other litter, but most of that was from the same people.
Losers would pull up 2am to use the cannisters with a bucket of KFC, dump it all out the window and drive off. Absolute losers. I tried reporting them a few times, hope they got fined for littering.