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submitted 1 week ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/globalnews@lemmy.zip

Possession of the class C drug for unlawful use can lead to a prison sentence of up to two years

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/laughing-gas-breathalyser-nitrous-oxide-police-b2975925.html


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[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Just take whipped cream with you and when the police stop you just eat a whole can of it on the spot. That should invalidate the results cause that is not recreational drug use but eating, which is, from what i know, still legal in the uk. Who knows next time they might ban drinking water or some shit

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Why ban water when it's far easier to inflate its price beyond all affordability by stripping entire populations of their access and handing your fellow pedos the gov't contract to snort it dry before they start a fresh one?

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

a prison sentence for ~~NO2~~ N~2~O jokerfied

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

NO~2~ will straight up kill you. Laughing gas is N~2~O.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

thanks for the technical correction, the best kind of correction

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, a professional scientist in the wild! 😶

[-] 00xide@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

In the most British act ever, Britain is cracking down on a drug that makes you laugh.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right up there with UK's "curry". 🤢🖕🏼

Almost as if spices're contraband, mirth's criminal, and laughter's terrorism. God slave the queen.

[-] divingdonkey@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Treating cream foamer as a dangerous drug seems a bit overreaching, but yeah, you should absolutely be sober when driving.

[-] iocase@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Oi! Do you ave a loicense to ave these thoughts?

[-] makeshift0546@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What the actual fuck? Nos lasts like a minute, 2 minutes tops when not hooked up to a machine.

Do these people have a fucking bottle and mask?

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

For exactly these reasons, massively doubting the 'looming threat ', unless you count the threat of grifters milking money from the nanny state.

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

The threat i guess is more that it absolutely rots your brain. But that has nothing to do with whatever they are trying to accomplish

[-] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Sometimes people try to say the UK was ever a beacon of progress in the world. After all the island where Karl Marx was unfortunately buried has to have some meaningful idea of how to move on from the 13th century.

Then this nonsense keeps popping up.

Fascism never left Europe, it just decided to go the slow route this time.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'd rather it's laughing than whining when doing the analyzing...

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