Laughing gas: Experts warn nitrous oxide ban will not stop use

[gentlegreen]

By all accounts frothing cream using CO2 is pretty disgusting.
There's a YT video of someone trying milk in a Sparklets ...

 

[skyscraper101]

What is the active ingredient in poppers?

Amyl Nitrate. Though I think it's mainly Alkyl Nitrate these days for reasons I can't remember.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Trifles to be a food of the past.

My sister makes a mean trifle, not sure she uses laughing gas for it

 

[gentlegreen]

Amyl Nitrate. Though I think it's mainly Alkyl Nitrate these days for reasons I can't remember.

Also kept in plating plants for acute treatment of cyanide poisoning

 

[Sasaferrato]

And there's this idea again that they're harmless. Saw a bunch of 12-13 years old kids out the other day, with a parent, all of them vaping.

My grandson has started vaping nicotine.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I thought they can't 'ban' it anyway because it's needed for stuff like canned whipped cream.

Do we need canned whipped cream?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

What is the active ingredient in poppers?

Amyl nitrate.

Horrible stuff.

 

[Epona]

What is the active ingredient in poppers?

Amyl Nitrate iirc

 

[gentlegreen]

There are nicotine-free vapes. Often those are the ones kids use. I fail to see the attraction.

From what is known (which isn't loads) it may very well be that the fruit flavouring is the worst thing for you in them. Worse than the nicotine.

Oh yes - and something about huffing glycerol ...

 

[Magnus McGinty]

There are nicotine-free vapes. Often those are the ones kids use. I fail to see the attraction.

From what is known (which isn't loads) it may very well be that the fruit flavouring is the worst thing for you in them. Worse than the nicotine.

All vapes and juices are classed as nicotine products though. Even without the nicotine.

 

[gentlegreen]

nitrIte I think ...

 

[skyscraper101]

Do we need canned whipped cream?

We'll see when they start linking to the dark web on Bake Off to score cake ingredients.

 

[Spandex]

"Laughing gas" was popularised by Sir Humphry Davy, noted chemist and inventor of the Davy Lamp, in 1800. On Boxing Day 1799 he tested it on himself in a vessel designed by James Watt (the bloke watts as a unit of electricity are named after). He loved it and conducted a number of 'experiments' with Nitrous Oxide on his esteemed friends and colleagues, not all of whom were there in the interests of pure science. Laughing Gas formed the basis of Davy's Friendship with Samuel Taylor Colridge. They were so busy getting high nobody thought to use it as an anaesthetic for another 50 years.

This is a good traditional British drug damnit and the Conservative Party should be ashamed of themselves trying to outlaw it.

 

[gentlegreen]

The Victorian middle classed also huffed ether...

 

[Superdupastupor]

I don't know if it has caught on up here... yet.

It's always been fairly niche in central-belter land. Something you'd see every so often at after-parties, crusty and or DIY fests, Hogmanay which as we all know lasts until the 2nd of Jan (I think it's fair to say this demographic is the highest use potential.)

And people are just silly wit it, sit down ffs.

Saw many people, after 2plus days with a 1gram of MDMA ,1 of ket, uncountable riduco»«bifters , no food and only swallies for hydration


tip over into tent pegs, campfires, napping folk ect.ect

to give a time frame this is 04to2016ish

 

[littlebabyjesus]

"Laughing gas" was popularised by Sir Humphry Davy, noted chemist and inventor of the Davy Lamp, in 1800. On Boxing Day 1799 he tested it on himself in a vessel designed by James Watt (the bloke watts as a unit of electricity are named after). He loved it and conducted a number of 'experiments' with Nitrous Oxide on his esteemed friends and colleagues, not all of whom were there in the interests of pure science. Laughing Gas formed the basis of Davy's Friendship with Samuel Taylor Colridge. They were so busy getting high nobody thought to use it as an anaesthetic for another 50 years.

This is a good traditional British drug damnit and the Conservative Party should be ashamed of themselves trying to outlaw it.

Wrong sort of people doing it now.

 

[SpookyFrank]

"Laughing gas" was popularised by Sir Humphry Davy, noted chemist and inventor of the Davy Lamp, in 1800. On Boxing Day 1799 he tested it on himself in a vessel designed by James Watt (the bloke watts as a unit of electricity are named after). He loved it and conducted a number of 'experiments' with Nitrous Oxide on his esteemed friends and colleagues, not all of whom were there in the interests of pure science. Laughing Gas formed the basis of Davy's Friendship with Samuel Taylor Colridge. They were so busy getting high nobody thought to use it as an anaesthetic for another 50 years.

This is a good traditional British drug damnit and the Conservative Party should be ashamed of themselves trying to outlaw it.

Bring back laudanum and nobody will give a toss about nitrous oxide any more.

 

[kalidarkone]

What a nightmare for the cops.
They are going to be very fucking busy. I expect other crimes to go right up.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

What a nightmare for the cops.
They are going to be very fucking busy. I expect other crimes to go right up.

They’ll afford it more interest than burglaries and sexual offences no doubt.

 

[danny la rouge]

If you're wandering around and see a load of tiny metal canisters on the ground, that was people (probably kids) doing nitrous. Regularly see them around my estate.

I haven’t been looking, but would probably have assumed them to be vape refills. (Another thing I’m ignorant about).

 

[ouirdeaux]

I haven’t been looking, but would probably have assumed them to be vape refills. (Another thing I’m ignorant about).

Well, now you know.

 

[girasol]

The Victorian middle classed also huffed ether...

The Brazilians (speaking from experience) sniff chloroform/ether - aka loló. A friend of mine died from it age 15 she had an unknown heart defect and a big session of sniffing it was too much for her.

 

[seeformiles]

Amyl Nitrate. Though I think it's mainly Alkyl Nitrate these days for reasons I can't remember.

Yep it’s Alkyl Nitrate - a pale imitation of what it used to be.

 

[gentlegreen]

By the time I think of a use for them, they'll probably go out of fashion.
The small ones are made of steel and will rust away.
The big ones look superficially like heavy gauge aluminium alloy.

 

[gentlegreen]

Nitrite

 

[seeformiles]

Amyl nitrate.

Horrible stuff.

Proper Amyl Nitrate (with a glass ampoule you snapped to soak it into cotton wool) was an amazing hit.

 

[gentlegreen]

nitrite

 

[seeformiles]

What a nightmare for the cops.
They are going to be very fucking busy. I expect other crimes to go right up.

The gulf between what politicians say and what police actually do has never been wider. Business as usual I suspect.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I once was knocked unconscious by ethyl chloride.

It was way back in the day, I was volunteering at the West Fife Hospital in Dunfermline.

I was working in Casualty as it was then. They had two little theatres, septic and aseptic. Septic was boils etc, aseptic was suturing.

On the day it was a toenail removal, the area had been ringblocked with lignocaine, but the guy was still feeling pain. I was sat on a stool beside his foot spraying ethyl chloride onto the op site to block the last of the pain. Then the world spun, and I awoke on a trolley. Hot day, rapidly evaporating anaesthetic liquid... boing. I have never been as hungover in my life, pounding head and nausea. As they say, I didn't do that again.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Proper Amyl Nitrate (with a glass ampoule you snapped to soak it into cotton wool) was an amazing hit.

We used to stock these GG is right about cyanide poisoning, but there was another use that I'm just about to look up.

Angina... of course, it is vasodilator. Superseded by Nitrolingual spray.