Like drink-driving, driving when high is dangerous and illegal. If the police catch people supplying illegal drugs in a home, club, bar or hostel, they can potentially prosecute the landlord, club owner or any other person concerned in the management of the premises.
As of , nitrous oxide is covered by the Psychoactive Substances Act and is illegal to supply for its psychoactive effect. If you or someone else needs urgent help after taking drugs or drinking, call for an ambulance. Tell the crew everything you know. It could save their life. Nitrous oxide NOS is a colourless gas sold in canisters, usually inhaled using a balloon.
Quick info. How the drug works varies from person to person. How it looks, tastes and smells What does it look like? You may have seen these metal canisters lying around in streets outside bars and nightclubs.
How do people take it? Nitrous oxide is inhaled. Others have suffered frostbite from inhaling the gas directly from the pressurised canisters. The situation in Britain, where nitrous is now the second most popular drug among young people after cannabis, has prompted the government there to consider further restricting its sale. As well as being restricted under the Act, sale of nitrous for its psychoactive properties is also banned under legislation.
However, nitrous is not a controlled drug, meaning it is not a crime to possess it. Its various legal uses mean it is also extremely difficult to prove someone is selling the drug for illicit purposes. Several Irish catering companies told The Irish Times this week that they have stopped selling the substance to retail customers over concerns about its illicit use. Research shows menopausal women often leave the workforce due to the symptoms.
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Please update your payment details to keep enjoying your Irish Times subscription. Conor Gallagher Crime Correspondent. Two shipments Revenue made no seizures of nitrous-oxide between and , but in the first half of seized two shipments, totalling 14, canisters, which were believed to be destined for the illicit market.
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There will also be tricky regulatory pathways to navigate if the catering industry faces burdensome new barriers. There are several ways this could be done without ratcheting up penal sanctions. The giant online retailers could actively remove listings. Catering suppliers could clamp down on bulk purchases by limiting how many nitrous oxide canisters can be bought at once, and restricting sales to approved or registered purchasers.
Local authorities could also be encouraged to use existing powers on anti-social behaviour. Although with cuts to local enforcement and environmental health teams it may be tempting to offload enforcement to equally stretched police forces. Many people are struggling to achieve meaningful recovery from drug use, and there are worrying signs of increases in the use of the most harmful substances in young people as drug prevention and education activities have disappeared.
Facing this ongoing public health crisis, is it right that so much resource and effort will be expended on nitrous oxide? Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in.
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