Sellers of recreational nitrous oxide will soon be subjected to fines, jail time or both after the new ordinance unanimously passed at the Nov. 18 city council meeting.

Nitrous oxide canisters used to get high lie on a street in downtown San Francisco in February 2022. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on ...

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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Young people are using nitrous oxide to get high at alarming rates, with colorful new ways to purchase the product, according to health experts, despite recent laws in Michigan ...

For some young people, a popular method for getting a quick high is by misusing laughing gas - and lately, that's in the form of nitrous oxide from products sold by the company Galaxy Gas. Those ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Kenner Police arrested two people accused of selling now illegal nitrous oxide canisters. The arrests came on the day a new law took effect as the result of our Fox 8 ...

Fed up with party companies renting out tanks of nitrous oxide and providing balloons and other equipment, leaders in The Netherlands are taking action. The high provided by nitrous oxide—aka laughing ...

Some deaths from nitrous oxide have occurred after inhaling from chargers for whipped cream can dispensers. Courtesy Getty Images. It’s often called “laughing gas,” a colorless anesthetic used to ...

New global trial data shows clinical nitrous oxide could be an effective treatment for depression. "Further research into nitrous oxide being used to treat depression is essential. The number of ...

The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on the sale of nitrous oxide — known as laughing gas, which is typically administered by anesthesiologists as a short-acting sedative. But ...