Yeah it made me stop after watching that Steve-O doco, his table full of little cans was worse than mine, but only by a bit, saw a little bit too much of myself in him at the time.

Or “Whippets.”

As an occasional hippie crack enjoyer back in the day as well as having been exposed to many people who were far more into it than me, I can tell you that the stuff is not physically addictive in the sense that hard drugs are, or cigarettes, or even booze. Getting hardcore addicted to nitrous is a personality thing, and somebody who would do that has a brain wired to be in a position to get addicted to anything. All the guys I knew who made it their entire personality were also the types who were not destined to be winners to begin with, and they’d have figured out a way to ruin their lives with candy bars if you’d have given them access to an unlimited supply of Twix.

Basically it gets you high by mildly asphyxiating you. Hopefully only mildly, that is. Since your lungs can only detect suffocation specifically by being too full of carbon dioxide it tricks your body into thinking that what you’re undergoing is not, in fact, the same thing as hypoxia. The obvious potential for brain damage should be self-evident for anyone whose brain is still functioning, in the event anybody uses too much in a short time span.

It shouldn’t be marketed or sold to children, but given that you can get yourself just as high by inhaling the dregs of a spent can of whipped cream from the grocery store (top tip, don’t hold the can upside down as if you’re shotgunning a beer, lest you shoot whipped cream out of your nose), and the alternative seems to be idiots getting high by inflating themselves with tetrafluoroethane instead, I’d much rather see people doing nitrous than cans of air duster.

I had no idea about Steve o. I need to watch that doc.

this is largely a problem in a country that also still shoves pieces of metal way up into people’s vaginas with no anesthesia.

you’re lucky if the dentist has nitrous at all here a lot of the time lmao. there’s even some grades within the country itself. most of america is literally a 3rd world shithole but you can’t say it publicly bc of the 10% of the population that lives in comfort and will get offended that you would dare talk about [insert any experience here that they themselves are entirely isolated from due to class]. it hurts their sensibilities or something… either way just know that when people say america is a shithole that is an understatement for the vast majority of american’s lives.

still used everywhere because it is extremely safe and works very well

Most dentists offer it still. I was offered some last month.