Nitrous Oxide Laws?

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October 12, 2007 at 1:18 pm

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process

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Digital-A wrote:

taken from urban75

The Law: This is currently undergoing revision to close a rather strange loophole. Currently, the use and possession of poppers in NOT illegal, but the law is complex.

Poppers can be sold as ‘room odourisors’ but not inhalants, as this would classify them as a medicine and require a pharmacy to dispense them.

If you got nabbed selling poppers as inhalants, you would be committing a civil offence and would be prosecuted by the Medicines Control Agency (part of the Department of Health).

However, for those who desire to have your room smelling of old socks, poppers are still freely available from many sex shops and other outlets. Stock up on ’em while you can! In the US, nitrites have been banned since 1988.

hope that answers ya mr p 🙂

what kind of illness are poppers prescribed for then? i wouldnt be happy if my doc gave me a bottle of them when i was feeling a bit ropey!
October 12, 2007 at 1:23 pm

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Digital-A

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mmm im assuming for something like angina were there isnt enough oxygen, effective for something like that. possibly even life saving.
October 12, 2007 at 1:24 pm

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Oosband

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spangle wrote:

It is illegal to sell the gas for use recreationaly – ie when it is in a balloon that someones gonna inhale, its not illegal to sell it in the wippets (for cooking purposes..) its also not illegal to posses/take it urself! So basically they need to prove he sold it to people to breathe, all he needs to say is he took them himself, without evidence more substantial that someones word (eg the police actualy catching him) they shuouldnt be able to charge or convict him of anything

Thanks a lot for this post, and Raj, thanks.
I’ll have to inform him of this as soon as he returns.

So, they have no proper evidence that he was actually selling it to others – no CCTV, no police viewing it. I don’t quite understand how they found out it was him though, I highly doubt anyone would have grassed him up.

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Sorry for asking a load of questions that you probably cant answer, I’m just trying to get as much information about all this so he can be best protected against a harsh punishment.
Lets say they do have hard evidence that he’s sold it, what punishment would he possibly face?

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To be quite honest though, I’m not 100% sure he’s going to get in any serious trouble. The local police know what we get up to and quite a few of our crew have gotten off with just warnings for offenses that usually have quite harsh punishments.

Saying that, they have spent the past 2 months asking us all about the empty canisters and they’ve made it front page news. When asked about the canisters we act all confused, but they’re not that stupid. They have been working hard on getting to the bottom of this, I really cant judge what they’re going to do to him.
Hopefully just a slap on the wrists.
October 12, 2007 at 1:26 pm

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Digital-A

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if there isnt a lot going on, they may like to bring a normally quite small and insignificent issue to light. maybe trying to show the local police are trying to do something, make the tax payers believe there finally paying for something.
October 12, 2007 at 1:32 pm

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Oosband

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Digital-A wrote:

if there isnt a lot going on, they may like to bring a normally quite small and insignificent issue to light. maybe trying to show the local police are trying to do something, make the tax payers believe there finally paying for something.

There is a fairly large police presence for a small community, it doesn’t seem like they have much to do.
I think there is a lot of pressure on the station to show some results, the only crime in the community is a slight bit of graffiti and us stoners.
October 12, 2007 at 1:43 pm

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Digital-A

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Oosband wrote:

There is a fairly large police presence for a small community, it doesn’t seem like they have much to do.
I think there is a lot of pressure on the station to show some results, the only crime in the community is a slight bit of graffiti and us stoners.

then there you go my friend, i wouldnt worry 🙂
October 12, 2007 at 2:41 pm

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spangle

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Oosband wrote:

So, they have no proper evidence that he was actually selling it to others – no CCTV, no police viewing it. I don’t quite understand how they found out it was him though, I highly doubt anyone would have grassed him up.

They may not actually know, a scare tactic they use to get confessions/people to give information is by saying they know what someones done & theyr gonna get a harsh punishent when often they dont have any evidence – when nothing else comes up it then just gets left..
October 13, 2007 at 11:10 am

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Oosband

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spangle wrote:

They may not actually know, a scare tactic they use to get confessions/people to give information is by saying they know what someones done & theyr gonna get a harsh punishent when often they dont have any evidence – when nothing else comes up it then just gets left..

Well there have only been two people selling it, but when my friend got caught for graffiti the other day they told him they knew who was selling the nos; they just cant prove it.

I guess he’s going to be ok, thanks for the replies.
October 14, 2007 at 10:01 pm

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imported_rach

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djprocess wrote:

neither have I, but then i havent really been looking as it gives me a banging headache!

i think you can buy poppers in anne summers haha!
October 17, 2007 at 8:45 pm

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Tocooltom

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A friend of mine sells alot of balloons and she never throws any on the floor because aparently the NOS chargers hav a code on them sumwhere which identifies where and when they were made, those specific chargers can then be traced back to the website she bought them off, who can then trace them back to her through invoices etc. Sounds kinda complicated but they seem to b able to do that with everything these days so y shud NOS chargers be any different?
October 18, 2007 at 8:34 am

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One.badgerinpink

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we recycle ours anyway…..
October 18, 2007 at 8:51 am

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Agent Subby

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Digital-A wrote:
Medicines Act 1968

This law governs the manufacture and supply of medicine. There are three categories:

Prescription Only drugs can be sold by a pharmacist if prescribed by a doctor <LI Pharmacy medicines may be sold by a pharmacist without prescription

General sales list medicines may be sold without a prescription in any shop

Possession of Prescription Only medicines without a prescription is a serious offence. Drugs such as amyl nitrite, GHB and ketamine are regulated under the Medicines Act.

{taken from the home office website}
I think you’ll find this is a tad out of date. Methinks that ketamine has been raised from ‘regulated’ to a Class C drug.
October 18, 2007 at 9:00 am

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One.badgerinpink

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you are correct…..that damn pony poweder
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