Moral panic over laughing gas has blown up in the Government's face 📨 Read IanDunt's latest newsletter
There is, of course, the litter. You’ll likely have seen the metallic canisters used to take the drug in any town park, along with the tell-tale sound of hissing as the gas is released. During the hot weather last summer, it seemed like every young person in my local park was sitting with a balloon, occasionally sucking on it as they chatted away.
Taken together, that evidence led the advisory council to the only possible rational answer. “Current evidence suggests that the health and social harms are not commensurate with control under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971,” it concluded. Doing so would impose criminal prosecutions on young people which would be “disproportionate for the level of harm associated with nitrous oxide and could have significant unintended consequences”.
Unfortunately, the Home Secretary is Suella Braverman, so we have little reason to be confident in the judgement she’ll bring to the issue. But then, even far superior home secretaries would have done the same. For over 100 years, we have followed the same pattern of hysteria, legislation and unintended consequence, all while stuffing the pockets of criminal gangs with gold and seeing increases in drug use. Perhaps this time, finally, we’ll get a sensible response. But don’t count on it.
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