laughing gas

[mynamehere]

Is "laughing gas", nitrous oxide legal? Is it "safe"? Thanks for your thoughts

[Toad1973]

Interesting question! I might be able to help a bit...

I think it's legal to buy it as its commonly used in the ice-cream industry - in the machines I think. You can buy it on line no problem. I'm pretty sure its illegal to sell it tho - ie for recreational use anyway. Aside from during child-birth I've used it at festivals on 'balloon' format with no ill-effects but thats not to say that there aren't any. It was good fun to use and did pretty much what it says on the tin (ie made us laugh.... a lot....)

Hope that helps.

[*Bob*]

I'm told they've been conducting trials on pregnant women during labour - before they decide on whether or not it might be safe for everybody else.

[maxxi]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> I'm told they've been conducting trials on

> pregnant women during labour - before they decide

> on whether or not it might be safe for everybody

> else.

That's right.

Just as in 'road-racing' cars a quick injection of 'nitro' can cause the rotations of the foetus to accelerate.

The cervix dilates like a rubber band snapping back and oxytocin (combining with the nitro) causes contractions to accelerate faster than the spasms of an A-1 'Aztec Two-Step' condition and results in, what has now become known as, 'projectile birth'.

The resultant 'splat' of newly arrived, and relatively startled, new-born against midwife/doctor's hands or catcher's mit (available at Mothercare) is enough to ensure baby's first-breath-reflex is triggered (although foetus may well be pissing itself laughing on exit).

It is also essential for one of those whipped cream thingies.

[Loz]

Considering it would still be attached to the umbilical cord, would this not work as a high-speed, sideways bungee jump?

[maxxi]

Hence the catcher's mit. Having 'soft' hands will become an essential quality to cradle n/b and nullify stem-cell bounce and re-entry problems.

Teams of cricketing midwives will travel to the U.S.A. to teach hard-handed baseball midwives the new technique.

[DulwichFox]

mynamehere Wrote:

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> Is "laughing gas", nitrous oxide legal? Is it

> "safe"? Thanks for your thoughts

Nitrous Oxide IS Dangerous. It's effect on any individual cannot be determined as it would seem

be dependent on any underlying medical conditions the individual user might have.

N.O. Replaces Oxygen in the lungs ans the Brain.

This can lead to unconciousness or death.

Mixing N.O. with over drugs can increase the halucegenic effects to a terrifying level.

Lack of Oxygen may cause severe Nerve Damage in all the vital organs including the Brain

resulting in organ failure and Instant death. N.O is very unpredictable.

Here is one website that gives some details Here

[mynamehere]

Thanks... been surfing the web and I've come to this conclusion myself. What happens to pregnant ladies in hospitals I assume and hope is a controlled experiment. What adults do is another type of control. My question started with a conversation with a student this afternoon. Under 18, whatever the vagaries of the law, (and the the law cannot keep up and making everything "illegal"...) at 17 it is definitely illegal and "selling" can bring down 3 years and an unlimited fine.

[JMT]

Also extremely environmentally unfriendly

[ianr]

> It is also essential for one of those whipped cream thingies.

Does anyone know what makes N2O the gas of choice for this application?

> at 17 it is definitely illegal and "selling" can bring down 3 years and an unlimited fine.

On what specific charge(s)?

[*Bob*]

Well 'the kids' are certainly mad forrit (the aftermath of any festival these days is knee-deep in clinking bottles) so I guess it will, sooner or later, be considered terribly, terribly dangerous - and thereby made illegal (ie 'slightly more expensive') at some point.

And thus, Nitrous Oxide will join the ranks of the vast swathe of other activities which *could* (under - statistically - highly improbable circumstances) cause injury or death .. along with other evils such as 'fairground rides', 'light exercise', 'eating', 'going out', 'waking up' and 'breathing in'.

I expect that if doing that thing - where you spin around whilst looking at the end of a broom held aloft and then try to run in a straight line - suddenly became popular with weekend revellers.. there'd be a ban on brooms.

[ianr]

It was reading William James that led to it, m'lud.