French lawmakers are considering a bill to limit the sale of nitrous oxide – commonly known as “laughing gas” – to medical and culinary professionals, as authorities warn of a public health crisis over recreational use among young people.
These restrictions are no laughing matter.
Is it really a public health crisis, even when talking about substance abuse, compared to a shit ton of other drugs out there?
Just a quick search shows me that there’s plenty of meth in France. That seems like a bigger problem. Maybe they should focus on that and let people do whip-its.
You can famously do only one thing. As long as there are hard drugs, the government can not do anything about a legally obtainable, but wrongly used material, that is a serious health risk…
You can famously only allocate funds to do a limited number of things.
You can get high on all sorts of legal substances that have legitimate uses or are just ornamental. Is France going to work on getting rid of all of them? Make nutmeg illegal? No San Pedro cactus in a pot in your home? Make cough medicine useless by removing the dextromethorphan?
Or maybe we can acknowledge that this is just not really something to allocate resources toward when there are better uses?
They did this in the UK and it never really worked, wonder why…
I could use a fucking laugh.
