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Vape Shops, Laughing Gas, And A Deadly Trend Among Young Americans
For Meg Caldwell, it was part of the background noise of college life. But it didn't stay that way. Soon, the vape shops she frequented started selling something else: small silver canisters of nitrous oxide or laughing gas.
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UK Bans Recreational Use Of Laughing Gas To Curb "Anti-Social Behaviour"
Possessing laughing gas to get a psychoactive high became illegal in Britain on Wednesday, with serial offenders facing up to two years in prison and dealers up to 14 years.
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UK Man Jailed For Possession Of 48,000 Cannisters Of Laughing Gas
Two police officers observed Keaton Ormerod-Beck taking nitrous oxide while operating his black Ford Focus, and they both placed him under arrest.
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Laughing Gas, The Second Most Popular Drug Among Young People, Is Being Banned In The UK
Possessing laughing gas will now be made a criminal offence as part of a wider crackdown on anti-social behaviour.
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The Real Reason You Might Not be Able to Buy Whipped Cream This Christmas
Thanks to a nationwide shortage of nitrous oxide, a critical ingredient in aerosol whipped creams, some major manufacturers have announced that they won't be able to keep up with holiday demand.
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World in 'Unchartered Territory' as Greenhouse Gases Hit New High: UN
Concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new high in 2014, the UN today, warning the resulting climate change was moving the world into "unchartered territory".
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Teenager Dies After Reportedly Ingesting 'Laughing Gas'
A teenager believed to have taken so-called laughing gas at a party in south-east London has died, police said today.
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Anaesthesia fatal in metabolic disorder
A common form of anesthesia, nitrous oxide, may cause serious harm to patients with a rare metabolic disorder, according to a new study. People who are born with certain mutations in the gene responsible for the breakdown of folate may be at risk for neurologic damage and even death, if they are given nitrous oxide.
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Vape Shops, Laughing Gas, And A Deadly Trend Among Young Americans
For Meg Caldwell, it was part of the background noise of college life. But it didn't stay that way. Soon, the vape shops she frequented started selling something else: small silver canisters of nitrous oxide or laughing gas.
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UK Bans Recreational Use Of Laughing Gas To Curb "Anti-Social Behaviour"
Possessing laughing gas to get a psychoactive high became illegal in Britain on Wednesday, with serial offenders facing up to two years in prison and dealers up to 14 years.
-
UK Man Jailed For Possession Of 48,000 Cannisters Of Laughing Gas
Two police officers observed Keaton Ormerod-Beck taking nitrous oxide while operating his black Ford Focus, and they both placed him under arrest.
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Laughing Gas, The Second Most Popular Drug Among Young People, Is Being Banned In The UK
Possessing laughing gas will now be made a criminal offence as part of a wider crackdown on anti-social behaviour.
-
The Real Reason You Might Not be Able to Buy Whipped Cream This Christmas
Thanks to a nationwide shortage of nitrous oxide, a critical ingredient in aerosol whipped creams, some major manufacturers have announced that they won't be able to keep up with holiday demand.
-
World in 'Unchartered Territory' as Greenhouse Gases Hit New High: UN
Concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new high in 2014, the UN today, warning the resulting climate change was moving the world into "unchartered territory".
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Teenager Dies After Reportedly Ingesting 'Laughing Gas'
A teenager believed to have taken so-called laughing gas at a party in south-east London has died, police said today.
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Anaesthesia fatal in metabolic disorder
A common form of anesthesia, nitrous oxide, may cause serious harm to patients with a rare metabolic disorder, according to a new study. People who are born with certain mutations in the gene responsible for the breakdown of folate may be at risk for neurologic damage and even death, if they are given nitrous oxide.
