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Today it was pre announced that the small metal n20 (nitrous oxide) canisters will be banned and possession will become a criminal offence.


This is supposed to stop young people using it as a recreational drug however it will cause issues for anyone who owns a cream whipper or professional chefs.


Are the government using a sledge hammer to crack a nut and if n20 possession is made illegal what happens to people who have it in a draw for making whipped cream.


In fact with no real alternatives on offer does it make thousands of cream whippers* up and down the country obsolete ?


Is there a better way of controlling it to stop misuse?


* cream whippers is not a euphemism for some shady activity 🙄

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This might just be the two of us. I was thinking of posting under the imaginative title no laughing matter.


Total overreaction and sadly Labour are supporting this. Not sure why they didn't listen to the government advisory committee:


www.gov.uk/government/publications/nitrous-oxide-updated-harms-assessment


The response is thank you advisory committee but no thank you


https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nitrous-oxide-updated-harms-assessment/government-response-acmd-nitrous-oxide-review-accessible


Do something useful and curb your mates in the tobacco industry selling vapes to school kids, or something substantial on online betting - noting of course for balance that it was Blair who opened this Pandora's box. Or maybe even the legitimate highs of sugar in our diet......


https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/deep-concerns-over-public-health-as-the-bmj-reveals-mps-links-to-organisation-backed-by-tobacco-industry/

It's all fun and games till it ends in tears


There does need to be more focus on online / in person gambling and vaping but n20 abuse is a low hanging fruit target.


Wonder how the possession point will pan out, will granny get sent to jail for having a couple of canisters at the back of a draw ?


Will Chefs be the go to person ?


Will tips be full of cream whippers discarded after they have spent their last load?


Its just not a practical law to enforce and I bet online retailers are doing a roaring trade at the moment to satisfy peoples future demands for whipping.

Nextdoor has been infiltrated by the government publicizing their red meat policies on anti-social behaviour. And you are not allowed to comment on the official announcement. They will be getting hippy's hair cut in the streets next (as in the book/film Centigrade 234. Well I suppose it suits Nextdoor as most posts are reactionary on it about dodgy goings on and dodgy people. It makes the EDF seem a hotbed of progressive thinking.


Well at least the Libdems, as pointless as they are, have spoken out unlike Labour kowtowing

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