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Glastonbury music festival organisers plead with revellers to leave the laughing gas at home
IT is a drug more popular than cocaine and ecstasy and deemed so dangerous that organisers of one of the world’s biggest music festivals wrote an open letter urging punters to steer clear of it.
It goes by the street names “nangers”, “nangs”, “whippets” and “hippie crack” but you might know it simply as laughing gas.
That’s right, the stuff dentists use to sedate their patients is being inhaled in such a quantity that the Glastonbury music festival banned it this year.
But how bad is it? A serious health risk or a lot of hot air?
Drug experts have taken a harder line on laughing gas — or nitrous oxide — in the UK where it has gained popularity. Britons use it for a legal high at nightclubs, parties and music festivals because it’s “dirt cheap” and believed to be relatively safe.
But 17 people are believed to have died after inhaling laughing gas in the UK alone. Young chef Jordan Guise died in France in February last year after experimenting with the drug.
Closer to home, Jessica Murray, 23, and Tolson Dimovski, 38, died 10 years earlier after experimenting with laughing gas in a vehicle in Sydney.
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http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...hing-gas-at-home/story-e6frfn0r-1227330817965
They make it seem like it hasn't been around for ever. Or that it isn't pretty safe.
Pictures In that link, those are some gacked out faces.
