This article (and every other article I can find on the ban) conflates whipped cream cans[1] with whipped cream chargers[2], which is what the law[3] bans.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.gogetdelivery.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1252x1252/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/7/0/7027223202cf.gif" rel="nofollow">https://www.gogetdelivery.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/b73db9f0-6258-47a6-9954-bd760e29e578_1.13557a1a8b5a6196b3427c872a32f12b.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/b73db9f0-6258-47a6-9954-bd7...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://legiscan.com/NY/text/A00754/2021" rel="nofollow">https://legiscan.com/NY/text/A00754/2021</a>
I <i>love</i> observing NYC, SF, and LA policies like this because it's so ridiculous.<p>An under 21 year old can go shoot up any substance - with the guarantee that the police won't touch them - at any of the safe injection sites, but progessive-heaven forbid that they want some whipped cream for their ice cream or want to try a recipe that included using one of these gas cartridges.<p>Canisters on the street? A disturbing eye sore that must be dealt with swiftly. Needles on the street? A sign of progressive tolerance and a reminder that drug users are the real victims.
This is kind of silly. Nitrous oxide is not harmful unless there is so much of it, it displaces the air and causes suffocation, or it is abused in such quantity that it causes neurological issues like persistent numbness. They should make it illegal for anyone under 21 to purchase Scotchguard and the other harmful aerosols that are popular inhalents, such as air freshener, deodorant, fabric protector, hair spray, vegetable oil spray, and spray paint. Those things hurt kids. No one has died or even hurt themselves, not ever, inhaling the nitrous from whipped creme or whip creme chargers, though people have suffocated on occasion when using actual nitrous tanks.
Maybe I'm just old and grouchy, but I think that at some point we might need to consider just stepping back and letting a little bit of natural selection occur- occasionally, just once in a while- in Homo (sometimes-not-so-)sapiens.
> Some 1 in 5 young people uses inhalants by the time they reach eighth grade<p>Well, good thing they now got it under control by fighting the symptoms. I'm sure the kids are not creative enough to find alternatives /s
Nitrous seems like about the best drug a kid could use. Basically no risks, fast acting fast eliminated, non addictive, no evidence of any long term negative effects.<p>Compare that to basically anything else you can inhale (or swallow or snort or inject).