Items tagged with nitrous oxide

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Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year [06.09.2023] Possession of nitrous oxide, also known as NOS, will carry a sentence of up to two years in prison. Laughing gas is one of the most commonly used rec ...
No joke: laughing gas ban has created ‘deadly waste hazard’ [01.09.2023] Measures to dispose of laughing glass cylinders have turned the flasks into a potentially deadly hazard, waste processing industry body NVRD has warn ...
Council of State opposes plan to ban sale of laughing gas [18.07.2022] The Council of State, which examines and makes recommendations about all new draft legislation in the Netherlands, says the government should not int ...
Crackdown on laughing gas cartridges and the Danish teenagers who abuse them [21.01.2020] The Danish government will present a bill to make it much harder for young people to abuse laughing gas cartridges to get high. The bill, which has a ...
Justice secretary hits back at criticism of nitrous oxide ban [16.01.2020] The UK justice secretary, Robert Buckland, has hit back at the former drugs adviser David Nutt for labelling the government’s criminalisation of nitr ...
No joke: Dutch to ban the sale of laughing gas for recreational use [09.12.2019] The Dutch government is planning to ban the sale of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, for recreational use. The decision follows several warnings about ...
Laughing gas still illegal despite court decisions, UK government says [31.08.2017] Prosecutors could in future decline to bring charges against people suspected of crimes linked to laughing gas after two cases collapsed when courts ...
Blanket ban on legal highs in England and Wales to begin on 26 May [05.05.2016] The delayed blanket ban on legal highs in England and Wales is to come into force on 26 May, the Home Office has confirmed. The introduction of the P ...
Nitrous oxide campaigners take drug outside UK parliament in protest at bill [01.08.2015] A protest against the government’s proposed ban of legal highs erupted in laughter on Saturday, as dozens of demonstrators simultaneously inhaled nit ...

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