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As of 2022, the gas enjoys moderate popularity in some countries as a recreational drug. [22] Nitrous oxide has the street names hippy crack and whippets (or whippits). [1] In Australia and New Zealand, nitrous oxide bulbs are known as nangs, possibly derived from the sound distortion perceived by consumers. [23] [24]
A 2021 New York state law banned the sale of "whipped cream chargers" to anyone under 21 to crack down on recreational whippet use and prevent the sale of nitrous oxide cartridges.
"Whippets" is a slang term for nitrous oxide, a gas commonly used in medical settings as a sedative or pain reliever. Here's what parents should know.
A whipped cream charger (colloquially called a whippet, nos or nang when used recreationally [1]) is a steel cylinder or cartridge filled with nitrous oxide (N 2 O) that is used as a whipping agent in whipped cream. The narrow end of a charger has a foil covering that is broken to release the gas.
Since the early 2000s, the European Union (EU) has developed several comprehensive and multidisciplinary strategies as part of its drug policy in order to prevent the diffusion of recreational drug use and abuse among the European population and raise public awareness on the adverse effects of drugs among all member states of the European Union ...
Erowid, also called Erowid Center, is a non-profit educational organization that provides information about psychoactive plants and chemicals. [3] [4]Erowid documents legal and illegal substances, including their intended and adverse effects.
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The toxic berry of Atropa belladonna which contains the tropane deliriants scopolamine, atropine, and hyoscyamine.. Deliriants are a subclass of hallucinogen.The term was coined in the early 1980s to distinguish these drugs from psychedelics such as LSD and dissociatives such as ketamine, due to their primary effect of causing delirium, as opposed to the more lucid (i.e. rational thought is ...