investigating the galaxy gas epidemic

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disclaimer: this video is an opinion and in no way should be construed as statements of fact. Scams, bad business opportunities, and fake gurus are subjective terms that mean different things to different people. I think someone who promises $100K/month for an upfront fee of $2K is a scam. Others would call it the "opportunity of a lifetime."

[@40footwolf]

You do not call something "Galaxy Gas" and *not* expect rappers and teens to get fucked up off of it. That legit sounds like a Future mixtape from like 2013

[@LaztheLax]

😂😂 lmfao

[@RedForeman]

“Gone to the moon” was my theme song 😂

[@Kouteau614]

Nah bro, it's definitely all about food, that's why a Vape company is selling it. For food.

[@nitehawk86]

I was hoping it was going to be a video about Sulfur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.

[@GH-jl2td]

they're called 'Nangs' and people have been doing them consistently for many years now. literally decades. 'Galaxy gas' is a fox news word so you don't talk about real issues in you country. How does the US (and others) manage to do this every few years or so 🙄

[@jimmy_kirk]

"No, no, no... the moonshine is for disinfecting dishes. No one is drinking it. It's just a coincidence that bars sell it."

[@freddiegibbson1440]

The khalil brothers when their "food product" is used as a drug when they give out enuff of it to be used as a drug

[@chris_the_skip1822]

Exactly, nothing new and people will try to get intoxicated regardless of the method available to them.

[@amalekedomite]

Oy vey goyim it's for food now give it to your kids.

[@johnosborne1873]

Exactly!

[@louthinator]

interesting that you put it in that context because as the 1920s/30s taught us.. prohibition doesn't work... Once the genie is out of the lamp you can't put it back in, so our only hope of containing it now is information and rehabilitation for those who are addicted.

[@ikmnification5737]

If action isn't taken, we'll probably have "Prime Air" in 6 months.

[@victorochoa3662]

Like in the Lorax

[@taicunmusic]

"Feastables Gas"

[@Relbo]

Search for prime whip... It already exists and I can buy some in Canada right now.

[@PRODCARMINE]

PRIMEWHIP alr exists 😂😂

[@soliniv1411]

😂😂😂 we know they are already planning a release

[@arguekayes]

The big tell is the Nitrous itself doesn’t need to be flavored if it’s used for food. Clearly it’s used to get high

[@volvo09]

And if you are breathing in a gas, why does it need a flavor? Stupid...

[@seanmartinson6249]

I wanna see someone make whipped cream with that stuff and see if it puts any flavor in, I really doubt it.

[@jordan853]

The strength that the flavouring would have to be to have it come out in the whipped cream would be so strong that someone couldn't get high off it without puking.

[@iVETAnsolini]

Should have bittergent in it, but clearly they want people to huff the shit

[@bigpat_4295]

i think it is ment to infuse drinks with it

[@Sleezy.Design]

People used to laugh at Steve-O for being addicted to laughing gas. Now it's a trend. And rappers and these idiots on these podcasts promote it on camera. Hats off, great role models.

[@winb_]

I mean should we really be surprised that people on the Internet change their minds about anything and everything as soon as it suits them?

[@d_trich]

Steve-O, Brittney Spears, Brendan Fraser... We should really start practicing empathy towards people for a change. It's better than hindsight.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Rap is the cause of like 90% of the issues with black youth and I'm tired of it being so mainstream

[@ytuseraccount]

as someone who went through a drug abuse phase when I was younger its essentially (although not exactly the same feeling) shitter, more dangerous, more expensive ketamine. don't do drugs but if you're gonna do dissociatives stick to the horse tranq

[@mynameisnotjerome1803]

Let the dumb ones take themselves out. This is a great way of helping prevent the movie Idiocracy from becoming a documentary.

[@LeslieHuh]

Why pay for whippits when you can just stand up too fast

[@rogerelzenga4465]

you should go see a doctor, your blood pressure is all kinds of fucked......

[@TheTuttle99]

Oh baby it ain't the same

[@Onio_Saiyan]

Faaaaaaaaacts.

[@snaifhassnan6348]

53-61

[@nocapvisualz]

How old you gotta be to do that 😂😂 I stand up fast everyday and I feel fine

[@Crackstiel]

Culinary guy here. I have seen so many people who have been fired for stealing the whipits from work its wild. The idea that they make canisters bigger than the small sized ones for charging a whiped cream canisters is so laughably obvious its not used for said canisters

[@pkmntrainerlilly5]

That was the take away for me. The flavors also give it away. I love making weird whipped creams and adding flavor to the cannisters does absolutely nothing for the taste.

[@simonthibodeau7082]

​​@@pkmntrainerlilly5do the flavors in galaxy gas actually do anything to whipped cream? If not that is so ridiculous

[@altac5428]

@@simonthibodeau7082 No, the gas is just used to make the texture, lol.

[@namastyle]

To provide the plausible deniability for use in culinary siphons, they sell additional equipment for adapting these large canisters to the standard cartridge thread. However, this would cut out a lot of the potential savings for buying in bulk.

[@Crackstiel]

@@namastyle I mean I guess if you could buy it one time it's like investment forward type thing but either way this feels excessive. I am a fan of making CO2 chargers more sustainable but it's also not a good idea to allow these to be sold outside of food industry buyers based buyers as a home cook would never use this much CO2 in their life time lol I also haven't looked into it but how exactly do you even use these? Like your not supposed to do whip it's straight (usually put it in a balloon or something) because it can literally burn your lungs. Like that's my big worry. Like whipits are bad enough as they are but it coming back to younger folks who don't know how to do it 'safely' is going to be really really bad

[@Taylor-bw4zg]

Didnt steve o specifically say that his time huffing shit was one of the worst points in his life?? Like if the guy who is like 95% drugs at this point wont touch it u probably shouldnt either lol

[@edj6841]

It's called 'Hippy Crack' for a reason...if you have them, and you have the slightest bit of addict in you, you'll just keep doing them

[@iVETAnsolini]

Steve-O out on bail. I remember watching that documentary back in like 06’. Crazy

[@feudalistrealism2501]

The high felt from huffing is literally from the brain damage it causes.

[@letsgochamp2023]

@@iVETAnsolini It's insane. That the guy pulled himself out of that place is inspiring. But I'd never touch whippets after seeing that shit.

[@Daniel-ou4fb]

He's been clean for something like 18 years.

[@Katreat4000]

I feel like I just had a throwback to like 2012. In Denmark we had a laughing gas epidemic in like 2012 - 2015 something like that. The exact way they got around laws of drugs was exactly like this. Saying it was used for deserts and drinks, so you could sell it in stores around the countries and people of all ages could buy it because it was not viewed as a drug. I think I remember the fix was making sure that laughing gas needed a machine to operate, so you cant operate it with your hands, therefore you need special equipment at home which is kinda expensive to get, but it also functions like an air blower, so if you tried to put it in your mouth to inhale, it would hurt instead of being tolerable. Also with the fact you'd need electricity made sure it was not used outside for drug purposes only.

[@donniev8181]

Throwback to 1992, this was a thing back then as well.

[@timbenzel1751]

I watched a dude hit duster so hard the fumes rolled out his nose as he passed out, fell on his back flat as a board smacked his head and siezured and convulsed violently for about 30 seconds. About to call 911 to report a dead guy when he jumped up laughing and asked why we were looking at him so concerned... Never had it and will never touch it.

[@surewhynot6259]

Duster is nasty stuff and contains solvents. It kills people pretty regularly.

[@anonony9081]

This is pretty common if you take too much. There are also tons of stories that there where people just stop breathing entirely.

[@Sauce787]

Computer duster isn't nitrous oxide, it's Freon the same refrigerant used in automotive air conditioning systems. Both can cause that type of asphyxiation but the reason air duster is intoxicating is because it asphyxiates you, the reason nitrous is intoxicating is because the chemical itself is an intoxicant. The sensation you get from duster is essentially the same that you would get if you took all of the oxygen out of your lungs

[@kodawitdasoda_]

Knew a dude fell straight into the corner off the coffee table knocked his front teeth in. 8th grade another buddy died. Never hit them myself

[@kalesmythe]

Is it bad that sounds fun to me?

[@rudetuesday]

My neighborhood's been littered with nitrous oxide whipping cream containers for years, as the local opioid addiction rates have gone up. It's awful that kids are using so early, and so heavily. Long-term use messes with mental health and can also lead to anemia, nerve damage, and Vitamin B12 deficiency. This is your sign to stop using. It's never too late to quit.

[@nwhydoyoucareo]

what does nitrous have to do with opioids in any way?

[@megarollxrgmbroadcasting91]

@@nwhydoyoucareohe’s sayin cause opioids are getting more expensive n shit more ppl are turning to n2o to get high instead

[@v3prhunterkiller828]

Drug abusers get bored and try new things ​@@nwhydoyoucareo

[@chesterfieldthe3rd929]

​@@nwhydoyoucareogood question

[@victoriafisher1923]

@@nwhydoyoucareo If you can't get one drug, you might turn to another to deal with the addiction.

[@wrdwdwrd]

i feel like somebody's grandma somewhere has been blown away at how many key lime pies she's been able to make with just one charger, telling all her friends about the unbelievable bargain & to get some for when their grandkids come over

[@dorkultra]

Ethel I swear it’s the deal of the century

[@wrdwdwrd]

@@dorkultra 'I'm buying a six pack to send home with the boys to Danielle'

[@simonthibodeau7082]

Ethel be like "how come my canister are empty after the grandkids go to visit?" lol

[@SandyRiverBlue]

Knew a guy that used to do it heavy back in the day. He said he quit because after one too many hits he ended up drooling all over the front of his shirt. He said that this is when he realized that this might be doing some brain damage (not after I told him at least 100 times that it was for sure damaging his brain...sometimes people are like that). Luckily the dude ended up staying quit and did something with his life.

[@trashman1605]

At least he stopped. some people never do.

[@purplism4857]

it doesn't do brain damage, only oxygen deprivation does. that is an urban myth, stop doing the reefer madness thing.

[@loldoctor]

Bullet dodged. I quit smoking because someone told me I smell bad when I hugged her and for some reason after years of trying, that’s what motivated me to quit. Brains are weird.

[@detour186]

Hey Coffee! I actually work in the vape industry and know & have the phone number of the owner of Cloud 9 that you talked about. We actually talked to him at the Champs Vegas trade show earlier this year (they had the BIGGEST booth you can get). We don’t carry any nitrous products for the exact reasons you explained and the danger they pose to users. If you decided to report further on this, I’d be glad to answer questions/provide info about Nick!

[@veccio]

LOL Being in the vape industry is about as good as being in supplements- what ever happened to the people that put vitamin E in vapes and gave kids popcorn lung? What about the new vapes that are equipped with LCD displays, lithium ion batteries and are intended to be disposed in landfills. (I assume intent in landfills absent a strong product lifecycle policy from the product vendor, including paid return postage and recycling).

[@asdasdae]

@@veccio 1st of all; popcorn lung was caused by diacetyl, not Vitamin E. Diacetyl was immediately banned in all vape products once the link was found. 2nd of all, the kids who were sent to hospitals with Vitamin E in vapes were using black market THC vape cartridges, not legitimate nicotine products sold at a legitimate store. Lastly, those vapes you're talking about with LCD displays and lithium-ion batteries meant to be thrown away are heavily looked down upon by the vaping community for exactly that reason. I don't think vaping is a good thing, but if you're going to make an argument against it, make it a well-informed argument.

[@sleepfailure3914]

@@veccioas another person in the industry the goal is ALWAYS to move customers to more sustainable options than disposables, and hopefully to get them off of nicotine entirely at some point, by tapering, using cbd to curb oral fixation, etc. There’s always gonna be shops and people in any industry that just don’t give a shit but assuming everyone is like that is dumb

[@BettiePagan]

Commenting to boost this to Coffee! Currently in the process of kicking vape-nic myself (it’s hell lol) but absolutely advocate for exposing the danger & corruption to help move the industry towards a safer & more sustainable user environment.

[@TchSktch]

So why did he promote galaxy gas lmfao

[@liftedlarry]

I work at a head shop. There's a lot of disinformation about nitrous. But the real risk here is that people are doing hits straight from the canister causing irreversible lung damage (you have no nerves in your lungs and can't even feel them being frostbitten). Obviously "whippets" are dangerous and a cheap high. But not permanently damaging if done correctly. The other issue is these galaxy gas companies are diluting the nitrous so much, the other chemicals can cause permanent brain damage. Whippets are a trashy way to get high, but Nitrous is not neurotoxic, it doesn't kill brain cells. It depletes your system of b12 and that is what kills/paralyzes people. A multivitamin won't cut it either. The more we know about the actual risks/affects, the safer we will all be.

[@supertetleman]

Thanks for spitting facts. Everything you said is spot on.

[@leakingsubconscious1671]

If you work at a store that sells these things and are okay with it, then you’re a part of the problem. It’s unbelievable to expect that every person you sell it to will “do it cOrRecTlY”! The same way “water pipes” are bongs, the same way “tobacco pipes” are bowls, there are correct terminology and correct uses for certain products but the end user isn’t gonna give enough of a fuck to read the fucking instructions; long time green smoker but even I know that the heat can fuck up your lungs and exercise at the least in terms of lifestyle changes are required to keep the habit healthy for my body. I pray to God you either live in a state that has bills that voters can support to ban it, or have the presence of mind not to sell this to literal children

[@pompeiiash]

People say "losing braincells" but call it what it is: BRAIN DAMAGE! This is giving people brain injuries!

[@bmacaulay18]

Most of them had nothing to damage to begin with. It's ok. 😂🤣😂

[@MyLovelyTexanHeart]

Exactly. It’s not like a bank account with millions of dollars in it, it’s your brain and you’re killing it.

[@deelowe3]

Does this mean you get brain damage when going to the dentist?

[@BurntToast502]

They offered my wife nitrous when she was going through child birth. It's much safer than people actually know. Lack of oxygen is what kills brain cells not the no2.

[@richpryor9650]

ahem* Aktually... Its Cerebral atrophy .

[@andrewcoleman3741]

Another dead giveaway on the intent beyond canisters that size only making sense for commercial uses, and selling it to head shops and online instead of only only to restaurant/bar supply businesses, is the fact that they're "flavored". No chef/bartender I know has ever said, "If only these N2O chargers came flavored. That would surely elevate my cream/foam/cocktail/etc....", since they're aware that whatever the adulterant is, it's gonna adversely affect the flavor of the dish/drink they're making.

[@anon2234]

As a cook myself, I've never heard of flavored NO2, but now I actually do want to see if it would elevate my whipped cream game... like for real, if the flavor imparts into the cream, it would be a sick shortcut, as flavoring whipped cream is usually a pain. It breaks too easily with certain additions as milk generally dislikes citrus.

[@declanwells1887]

​@anon2234 would love th know but as far as I'm aware the flavouring is just an aerosol so it just smells.

[@nonamenoname1133]

​@@anon2234 I love me some food science, but I don't trust most manufacturers are developing these with particularly good execution of the flavor

[@pixeljunk3756]

​@@anon2234 Yea it would, no2 by itself changed the flavour of your whipped cream, making it sweeter

[@andrewcoleman3741]

@@anon2234 It's an interesting thought experiment, but I can't help but think it's gonna introduce at least some "off" and artificial notes that just can't be worked around.

[@Beautiful-ModelBarbara-Hut-s1j]

My stepbrother passed away from using it. I have no respect for people who sell things that are a cover for people just to misuse.

[@MindGooJE]

No he absolutely the fuck did not. Give me a name, I wanna look this up in medical journals. Or did he pass out and hit his head, cuz, he died from not sitting down while you use it is the only possible way this bullshit is true. You cannot OD on N20 without hooking up a mask to a tank. Ain't no way he huffed or ballooned or even directly off a tank took a fatal does, it's not possible without assisted administration.

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

My uncle who's been a paramedic for literal decades said they used to keep nitrous oxide on ambulances as a relatively safe anesthetic and pain killer. But they had to stop because, as you can imagine, people started abusing it.

[@jobblejosh9713]

Entonox/Nitrous Oxide is still widely used as an analgesic, mainly because it has very few contraindications, it's fast acting and short lasting, patients can easily self-administer the amount they need, and when delivered via an appropriate mouthpiece and supervised by someone trained in its use, it's almost impossible to overdose since the mouthpiece requires the patient to actively suck on it to administer it (if you pass out, you can't suck, and so you can't self-administer more). It's also a mixture of 50/50 N2O and O2, to prevent asphyxiation/hypoxia. People could abuse it, but they could also try and obtain controlled drugs from an ambulance (morphine etc), and controlled drugs are arguably easier to carry around than a cylinder and demand valve for N2O/O2. The issue with its use recreationally is that there isn't necessarily the 50/50 mix (and thus asphyxia is a very real concern; most deaths and injuries are due to N20-induced hypoxia), and when delivered via an innapropriate mechanism (such as a balloon or straight valve) there isn't the active demand and so the gas will just keep flowing out even when the user is unconscious.

[@AJ-ig4sm]

Usa and piss flag

[@simonthibodeau7082]

​​​@@jobblejosh9713 I feel like I should also add, the few documented cases of people recreationally using this drug (allegedly) without too much harm involve waiting at least 4-6 weeks before each use, usually binges. (I have never done it myself). This supposedly has to do with replenishing the B12 absorption inhibition the drug causes (which leads to brain/nerve damage in most users). This also makes sense to explain why it is safe for medical use because you're not gonna be having dental surgery everyday for months. Obviously, kids who watch a few tiktoks and who go to buy this huge canister at their local smoke shops will not do that or practice any other kind of harm reduction. Even if you are "doing it only on Saturdays", even if doing every other bit of harm reduction and inhaling properly, you can still end up paralyzed and/or have serious brain damage because that is still way too frequently. It's incredibly addictive hence the name hippie crack. Hence why 99% of people who buy this galaxy gas, will end up with brain damage. What you mentioned, the asphyxiation that can occur during use, is well documented in abusers and is called "fishing out", because you will literally end up spazzing on the ground like a fish out of water gasping for air. Some people (infamously steve O) will actually purposefully do this for an additional high that is purely from lack of oxygen to the brain. Which by itself is many many times more accutely neurotoxic meaning immediate brain damage, whereas even when "inhaling properly" N20 is toxic through chronic abuse (sadly this is very frequent too).

[@Astinsan]

@@jobblejosh9713this guy is 100%.. don't abuse these gasses.. There is a fire issue with this and the 50/50.. don't mess with it.

[@sendmorerum8241]

@@jobblejosh9713 finally, some facts

[@marecwolfe]

Dang, whippets have been around since the 70's

[@scrubmcchub2255]

I tried it in 2003, and it was just a thing edgy kids tried for fun. It was never a huge fad like this. Crazy 😂

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

Is that how long they have been around?

[@WhatSmellsLikeToast]

Nitrous parties were popular in the 1800s

[@maxbailey9164]

@@КГБКолДжорджКостанцаlonger, queen Victoria held nitrous parties, girlie was ruling Britannia from cloud 9

[@volvo09]

I used to work at an ice cream restaurant as a teen and one of the guys would randomly take a trash bag of nitrous. I never used it, I remember laughing on it when a doctor gave it to me, but I don't want to be so high I will fall asleep!

[@Assassin-js1jp]

Back in my day Nitrous Oxide was only known for making cars go vroom vroom faster

[@DrakeDaraitis]

Wrong nitrous lmfao

[@fornhunkle]

​@DrakeDaraitis WRONG AGAIN, LOSER

[@CorpsesReborn]

Funny enough, "galixy gas" is not food grade, its vehicle nos

[@ZonymaUnltd.]

@@DrakeDaraitisfact check

[@jeffreydanilko6657]

@@CorpsesReborn I was just going to say its not medical grade or even food grade. Its the same Nitrous Oxide use in cars. The flavour is to cover up the sulphur Dioxide. Which is added to prevent people from inhaling it.

[@samuellove9619]

"Man, the romans were so dumb for using lead pipes for their drinking water." Gen z/alpha: "Yeah, they should've flavoured it."

[@Gavo172]

Ironically, I'm pretty sure the Romans either produced wine with lead or had cups with lead because it made it sweeter

[@samuellove9619]

@Gavo172 I guess that makes brain rot an intergenerational pastime.

[@avawetzel3408]

@@samuellove9619 people have always been people, there's no getting around it

[@krusher181]

Meh you can inhale nitrous safely, definitely possible. Don’t ask me how I’d know

[@funk0rz]

@@krusher181 grow a brain

[@Chuychubacca]

Joe: is this legal? Normand: You're gonna forget how to play pool

[@Frostpunker]

I once worked with a couple who huffed so bad and had so much brain damage that they were both not only intellectually disabled but the female could no longer walk and was incontinent. They lost 9 babies to the system but kept getting pregnant again. Talk about ruining lives!!!!

[@Xvladin]

Nitrous isn't like other inhalants/huffing. It's significantly less dangerous. People huffing gasoline, freon, glue, pain, are fucked.

[@ParzivalKings]

@@Xvladin yet Nitrous will make you brain damaged but yeah thats "not bad huh" aduhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@fayerawcliffe7794]

@@Xvladinlet’s not try and play a “which gas kills the least brain cells” cause THEY ALL DAMAGE YOUR BRAIN

[@Elizabeth-n3v2u]

​@@fayerawcliffe7794 yes and no: most other inhalants damage your brain *orders of magnitude* worse than nitrous. It's a bit like saying drinking Gatorade and sea water will both eventually cause sodium overdose and cardiac arrest. That's strictly true, but the difference in amount you'd need to ingest is so large that it's not even really worth mentioning the heart-stopping dangers of drinking Gatorade. Source: PhD in toxicology

[@Steve-ev6vx]

The issue isn't necessarily brain damage as long as you are getting enough air, but long term use causes severe B vitamin deficiency which leads to nerve damage. That is how some people end up in a wheel chair.

[@hausdorffspace]

I don't know. We have all had those shameful days where we ate a quarter million servings of whipped cream in one sitting. Who is to say that a canister with half a million servings is excessive?

[@prod.bypanya4355]

Especially in strawberry watermelon flavour

[@elisee9935]

....you do realize that the whipped cream doesn't have nitrous in it right? The nitrous is only used to keep the cannisters under pressure so the whipped cream doesn't leak out like a malfunctioning faucet. The nitrous evaporates into the air. Galaxy Gas is people inhaling pure nitrous, that's super dangerous.

[@DarthPerkins]

You: "You can't eat a quarter of a million servings of whipped cream in one sitting" Me: "Hold my absolutely enormous Banana Split!"

[@machintrucGaming]

It's not ! That 74 serving is bogus. Other commented that it's 8 grams canister as standard and you need 2 for a litter of siphon.

[@MacCrunch]

These 'whip cream' canisters are entirely misused for getting high which is highly concerning. Seems like the regulators really need to crack down on this.

[@jacob.g.l1592]

No shit sherlock 😂

[@Lyme_lyte]

In the UK the law regarding nitrous canisters was recently made a lot stricter. Due to deaths and brain damage caused by the use of it. Although it is still available for the catering industry which still allows illegal usage of it I personally have seen a massive reduction in the usage of it.

[@3_character_minimum]

That explains why the Irish where having a big uptick in online purchases.

[@zf-xi6ds]

Where did you get this info? 😊​@@3_character_minimum

[@fiasco2003]

I saw a couple of these massive catering size NO cartridges, spent, and left on a bin in the town near me just recently. I guessed that this was the direction that the trend was now taking here. I live near Glastonbury, so not surprises that I would see this, I suppose.

[@hxcxor]

50 people died from nitrous in the uk in the past 20 years. 10,000 people died from alcohol in 2022 alone. dont act like the banning is for public health

[@rossstewart9475]

@@fiasco2003 I've worked in catering for nearly 20 years, and I've never seen a nitrous canister that wasn't one of the single use, 5g chargers: I'd wager that if you see anything larger that isn't intended for medical or industrial use, it's being abused.

[@silverserpent420]

I used to be a nitrous oxide auxiliary, when I assisted in chair side dentistry. The high is literally your brain dying. We ALWAYS administer nitrous with oxygen. Usually a 50/50 ratio. This keeps you in a twilight state without being oxygen deprived. Oxygen will also reverse the effects of nitrous immediately. Now imagine these people filling their lung space with nitrous. Where's the room for oxygen? That's why people are passing out. Your brain is oxygen deprived. Granted the nitrous escapes with every exhale. And the effects lessen as oxygen re-enters the body. But that could take too long and cause irreversible damage. Prolonged recreational use can cause tremors, spasms, memory loss, and a host of other neurological issues. The short yet dangerous recreational high just isn't worth it. Galaxy and fake culinary companies like them need to be held accountable. The litter from the cannisters should be alarm enough to do something. Lastly, folks are going to what they want. That said. Please don't use nitrous alone. Have a buddy. Especially if they don't use it. Pick up some cans of oxygen used for hiking. That oxygen could possibly reverse an overdose if administered quickly enough. Stay safe. 💚🫶🏽💚

[@arlobubble3748]

The high is NMDA receptor antagonism, not your brain dying. Although hypoxia is a real risk and can contribute to the subjective effects. There are plenty of suffocating gases that will displace oxygen but won't have nearly the same effect.

[@JJFX-]

I appreciate the attempt at encouraging safety but please don't repeat things like, "the high is your brain dying". As someone who grew up with the failed DARE program being pushed in schools, exaggerated rhetoric like this just leads to kids not trusting the warnings about drugs. N2O inhibits and activates various receptors in the brain which causes a calming, euphoric effect. It likely also stimulates the release of certain endogenous opioids. None of this simply comes down to lack of oxygen, which causes you to pass out often before you even realize what's happening. Inhibiting NMDA receptors effectively decreases neuronal activity but this is not your "brain dying".

[@silverserpent420]

@@JJFX- I'm using language that many can understand. We have both come to the same conclusion. I was trying to help. Take it or leave it. When you oxygen deprive your brain stuff happens. I've been in dentistry for over 20yrs. I've paid my dues. And I'm just trying to help. But apparently. You're the leading Dr on this. DARE. AND REEFER MADNESS. I will never perpetuate. What would you call brain cells becoming inactive because of asphyxiation?

[@kaingates]

Dawg. A can of whippit is like... under 4% nitrous. It's not even comparable to what one gets at the dentist. A can of over 50% pure nitrogen would cost around $1900 per can are you crazy?

[@JJFX-]

@@silverserpent420 I understand that, the point is simply that while passing out from lack of oxygen certainly isn't helping the brain, as you know that isn't what's causing the euphoric sensation nor is it always happening. The high is not your "brain cells dying", effectively holding your breath long enough to pass out is, which is a separate issue. My intention wasn't to insult you, our motives are the same. I just think it's a mistake to assume most people need an exaggerated interpretation of the danger.

[@lefthand1973]

In the late 90's I worked for a head shop, and they sold nitrous cartridges. Unknown to the owner, an employee sold a case to a teen in another state. When the teen got them, he opened them into a trash bag and stuck his head into it, and died. My boss was convicted of a few things, including manslaughter and spent 3 years in prison.

[@Blorckits]

fake

[@lefthand1973]

Aww you caught me.😢​@Blorckits

[@Jshart92]

My stepbrother passed away from using it. I have no respect for people who sell things that are a cover for people just to misuse.

[@zetokaiba5867]

Damn bro.

[@Xvladin]

Is it really a cover? The intended use is genuinely to get high, the "you can't prove we aren't selling it to be used for whip cream" is just the legal reason they're allowed to exist.

[@benargee]

#PurduePharma

[@MmmKayHuuNay]

i'm sorry about your brother.

[@VapelifeX]

Sorry for your loss. Hopefully they outlaw this shit! It’s crazy.

[@vanadot]

There's a case in my town where a teenager was found dead alone in his room with his head wrapped with a plastic bag connected to a gas canister, his room is filled with small canisters of various gasses. Please never let this trend to continue. When someone tried a weird gas, the concern is that they might have the idea to experiment on other gasses. This is where it will become even more fatal trends. Even before these as*holes promotes these products "legally", people could easily buy some of these gasses online in some regions.

[@rossstewart9475]

uhh, a plastic bag wrapped around their head? That sounds a lot like they tried to asphyxiate themselves: Back when it was still (somewhat) acceptable to discuss these things online, it was one of the more commonly suggested methods of self annihilation, as (or so I'm told) the body doesn't do a very good job of realising it's asphyixiation with the "right" kinds of gases. I really don't think the person in your story was practicing substance abuse, based on the information you've given us.

[@midgetman5701]

As the other commentator suggested I think he just tried to kill him self and not getting high with it because I’m hitting NOS right now but without a bag over my head or depressed thoughts

[@JJFX-]

​@@rossstewart9475Yeah that's why carbon monoxide can be so dangerous. Even if you were to have a large tank of liquid nitrogen, a gas everyone is breathing right now, in a small room with minimal ventilation and allow it to boil off and displace the oxygen, it's surprisingly easy to pass out. Especially if you aren't thinking about it being a hazard and shrug off the early signs. That said, what is described by the OP sounds like a very sad story that goes beyond nitrous abuse.

[@_Dark222Angel_]

my mom was worried when she found my bong.

[@TomJakobW]

lol, are we at “gateway gas” now? 😂 m8, please, get real. When people build weird contraptions with gasses without any though of oxygen, then that’s a wholly different issue. Asphyxiation is not an issue with n2o if you don’t build weird death chambers. the hypovitaminosis b12 is the most relevant issue of very (!) extreme use. That and falling accidents. I mean, the nitrous equivalent of “soaking tampons in vodka and dying” is not a great example. Extreme cases aren’t good representative examples: they serve media scare-campaigns ($$$) but not the common people. Those who go down hard had (and have) massive underlying issues that are their very own can of worms. If I was a politician I’d 18+ this stuff, though; no question.

[@kesamek8537]

Let's be honest, it won't make America any more stupid.

[@LawofAxis]

I think you're about to be surprised.

[@kerolokerokerolo]

Because they can't be any dumber 😂😂

[@Pushing_Pixels]

@@LawofAxis Nothing about the minds of Americans surprises me anymore.

[@Ban-sidhe]

We're going back to the Victorian era in our addictions.

[@ashdog9235]

Real shit

[@foxadee]

I might try ether.

[@TomJakobW]

@@foxadee at this pace in 100 years you’ll have guides on how to club-bonk your head for a good trip to mammoth-and-sabretooth-land. 😀

[@Pushing_Pixels]

I've always wanted to start a Victorian Era Opium Den themed chain of opium dens. Kind of like Irish Pubs, but for smack.

[@tylrj]

this whole time i thought galaxy gas was a modern name for weed

[@InVinoVeratas]

Just gas is. It's a type of terpene flavour profile that relates to strains that taste like gas, diesel, flavours that make you cough real bad.

[@ihaven0thingnotevenaname881]

I mean galatic gas is a strain.... initially I thought this was gonna be some sort of rosin compound.... who tf is rippin nangs these days...

[@EthelJung-j5w]

I have seen documentary about this addiction in Australia. Long term can cause nerve damage.

[@Alfred-Neuman]

A documentary? Hehehehehehehehehehehehe! In Australia? Hehehehehehehehehehehehehe! About this addiction? Hehehehehehehehehehehehehe!

[@MrVIPMan250]

There's people in AUS addicted to nangs?

[@ExhaustedOwl]

As an Australian - yeah, it's a real issue here :( I camped at Bonnie Doon recently (a big, family-oriented campground) and there were a bunch of young guys camping near us who were doing nangs constantly. They ended up coming into our tent in the middle of the night because they were off their faces & didn't seem to realise it was terrifying for us.

[@jayjaybirdsnest]

Yeah, nangs are huge in the underground rave scene here in Australia. I've seen people literally drooling and burn their lips, tongues and fingers from leaving the cannister open (frostbite). Admittedly i did quite a few in my early years in the scene before realizing how bad it actually is and now i don't even want to be near anyone who's doing it.

[@DVNGXR]

Just for everyones information nitrous oxide abuse can cause vitamin b12 deficiency. Although a drug causing a vitamin deficiency does not seem inherently dangerous, seroius long term b12 deficiency can have some extremely scary dangerous effects. I believe the vitamin b12 deficiency is whats responsible for nerve damage and even an inability to walk. Nobody should abuse nitrous oxide, but if you are at least get your b12 levels checked and supplement.

[@MttSuddarth]

A St Louis jury recently awarded $700+ MILLION against a Whip-It manufacturer for this same reason. Hopefully this prevents more abuse in the future

[@penny3577]

I'm on Dublin, Ireland and you see these empty cannisters littered around the place. I've seen 12-14years do it in broad daylight at 3pm. These companies need to be shut down. At least make the legal age to buy this stuff over 18yrs.

[@kittygoesWOOF]

It used to only be sold in head shops, which you needed to be 18 or older to enter. That's basically how it was regulated. That and they came only in the small, 2 or 3 inch long, 3/4 inch round cartridges. I've done it back in the day, but I've never understood how people get addicted to it. In any case, how tf are people walking around doing this in broad daylight or in schools, especially little kids? I've been wondering how Ireland's doing with the benzo crisis, I remember it used to be pretty serious. Are kids switching to nitrous or is it just an addition? Nitrous and benzos sound like a serious recipe for disaster.

[@AdamOBrien29]

The Curragh is littered with them. They need to be straight up banned

[@simonthibodeau7082]

I'm more than fine with underage people having the right to whip cream for desserts taken away from them if it means less abuse tbh

[@angry_zergling]

Even computer duster requires 18+ around here. They don't require it for nitrous? Yikes.

[@therideneverends1697]

whats that going to do? ask those 14 year olds if they have had a beer

[@douglasosman3760]

I saw an ad on KZbin for galaxy gas and reported it, KZbin came back and said it didn’t violate any terms. It’s so obviously for abuse and not for culinary purposes, even Stevie wonder could see it

[@videnez]

I watched Steve-O go through this in realtime on MTV. You should all watch it to watch how he came back from rock bottom. Doing whipits was his rock bottom.

[@volvo09]

TV is scripted... I don't disagree with the message, but that wasn't real.

[@devilsadvocate1338]

He was doing tons of other drugs plus whipits tho

[@devilsadvocate1338]

​@volvo09 no stevo was off his rocker that was indeed real

[@JoshHitti]

@@volvo09he was 100% addicted to drugs and nitrous. That wasn’t scripted.

[@shawnpitman876]

@@volvo09 Bro you're not understanding, the shows might have been scripted but the dude was off his rocker and acting like a maniac because of the drugs.

[@michaelboyle7281]

The most concerning part is really the size of the nitrous canisters that people are getting. I did nitrous back in high school over a decade a go, but back then you just got whip cream cans, let them melt, then inhale the nitrous. Unless you or a friend had a nitrous canister, basically a nitrous bong, then you could easily do whippit after whippit because you just add more chargers to the canister. With this galaxy gas stuff, it seems like you can just keep huffing on it without having to refill anything, which is where the true danger comes, since you can start inhaling more nitrous than you inhale oxygen. Also giving it the new nickname "Galaxy Gas" certainly has made it more trendy and popular among the youth. Teens always do dumb shit, social media is just showing us that stupid shit more often, but in this case social media is certainly pushing this drug into more popularity than I've ever seen in 26 years, it will probably be more common at house parties and stuff too

[@TomJakobW]

great comment!

[@Pushing_Pixels]

At least with the little whipped cream bottle cannisters (we called them bulbs) they're single-dose. It gets expensive and people notice if you buy a lot of them. If they had been selling 2kg bottles unrestricted when I was doing them, it would've been a much bigger problem. It also would've been shut down very quickly by the govt in my country, so the problem would've gone back to being a small one. You'd think these Galaxy Gas bottles would require FDA approval before being sold, given they're both a food and a drug. For some reason, the US will let people sell anything, then only look into it after it becomes a national scandal (like Bath Salts).

[@supertetleman]

Spot on. Having to refill a canister pretty much guaranteed that when you had enough you were done.

[@gryhm2857]

They've been doing this in the UK for years. Still see tiny nitrous bottles on the streets sometimes.

[@stephe1506]

I knew a guy who lives in a rural area who went mad, he caused issues and got kicked out of the hippie community he lived on. When he left, some guys told me the creek next to his house was completely full of these bulbs 😐

[@chuckmcgill69]

Bloons

[@firstwolfplus]

Chemistry FAQ Why Nitrous for whipping cream? Why not air? Carbon dioxide mixes to make acidic compounds in food. this ruins the sweetness and the texture of the product. Many common gasses will do this and pure air has a whole ratio of them. Nitrous is incredibly inert meaning it really doesn't react with most things unless youre intending it. Why does nitrous kill brain cells? Nitrous oxide displaces oxygen in the blood. The lingering high is your body literally starving for oxygen. It's used in low concentrations for dental anesthesia through a mask that is also providing positive airflow into your body. The dental equipment literally forces air into you. (Like a CPAP). Is there a safe amount? Seriously, don't mess with this stuff. It's not worth it. You build tolerance fast and if you end up huffing all day off a 2 kilo canister you can very well end up "overdosing" where your muscles don't get any oxygen and it can lead to limb damage and even situations requiring amputation. Huffing in general is an awful way to consume drugs. 1. You have no hints on dosing 2. You end up with a huge supply of the stuff which increases abuse to overdose potential 3. you almost always end up with permanent damage even with lower and less frequent doses. If you are reading this you are better than huffing. If you can't measure it, don't do it. ✌️

[@kameronbrooks2372]

It's weird watching the internet discover "new" stuff that has existed for decades/centuries

[@nedflanders4158]

It's not the internet, that's just kids, even in real life, everything they discover they think they are the first. Lol had a young family member tell about this amazing food no one had ever heard of called "Korean BBQ," which happens to be my favourite food and literally had for EVERY birthday. Yet this young family member thought no one had ever heard of it before.

[@raultrashlord4404]

Can't wait for the next moral panic on huffing ether after this one runs out of engagement steam.

[@JewTube001]

Trends come and go. Was like this before you had internet.

[@gregoryl.levitre9759]

@@nedflanders4158 it's the internet.

[@theGanj]

Its basically the same way to get around the law as bath salts. Those research chemicals were created to be consumed by people to get high, but you cannot sell it as that so they sold it as bath salts.

[@arlobubble3748]

It's a little different, "bath salts" had no actual use as bath salts, whereas nitrous oxide does actually have genuine culinary uses.

[@thecardboardsword]

at least mcat was good though

[@phat-kid]

edit to put this at the beginning, not buried in my long comment: nitrous is terrible for you, all inhalants are. you can freeze your lungs, black out and go into seizures, and make yourself braindead with this stuff i'm an old raver and we used to do a lot of nitrous back in the day. you used to have to go to a gas supply company to get big tanks. you can get them for brewing beer and for making sodas. it actually makes way better beer and soda than co2. you can also get big tanks of co2 for growing plants in your closet if you know what i mean. these galaxy gas tanks are like rave size. nitrous is terrible for you, all inhalants are. you can freeze your lungs, black out and go into seizures, and make yourself braindead with this stuff. i won't go into all the details, just don't do it. i've seen people ruin their lives with inhalants, including nitrous.

[@AlteredRule]

Anything that displaces oxygen out of you should automatically be a red flag, but that's just my 2 cents

[@Psykomancer]

Oxygen displacement is the least dangerous of the side effects. Helium also displaces oxygen, but doesn't interact with the body's biochemistry (and is, technically, self-flushing). Nitrous oxide is a free radical, meaning it is itching to bind to anything it touches. This can cause anything from slightly impeding metabolic pathways to slowing/halting neural transfer to outright tearing holes in cellular membranes and killing them.

[@irem7651]

Doing a Kanye is crazy work💀

[@CyborgFish]

I've worked at a few smoke shops. Always hated selling that shit. I remember asking one of my bosses at one point after being concerned about a regular customer's consistent and high usage "Can't we cut him off at some point?" and my boss replied with "No. He's an adult and knows what he's doing." Always told myself if I ever ran a smoke shop that's one of the few items I would refuse to carry. This one customer had to take laxatives because it solidified his intestines from the insane amount he used. Don't know if that's the real cause of why he needed laxatives but it's what he told me. He said he was an artist and it helped him create.. This world is so ugly man

[@skittlemenow]

Galaxy gas sounds like the new dangerous drug in a brand new 80s action cop movie.

[@silox2000]

Galaxy Gas, safer than Nuke!

[@Dragon81205]

It sound like a drug you will see in fallout.

[@Jason-vo8td]

Like "The Stuff" from 1985 :D

[@RobertMunro-wb6jb]

I’m from England and in my mid 40’s and about 25 years back it was big over here!!!! I know people who have abused it and ended up addicted to it and end up having strokes and even worse brain damage !!!

[@bobsworth7082]

Mate balloons have been a thing over here for at least 20 years, since I was at uni back in the early 2000s. Looks like the Americans have just discovered it, tho we just had the little canisters and a whipped cream dispenser not those massive fire extinguishers the kids got now

[@Steve-ev6vx]

​​@@bobsworth7082No, it isn't new in America. White people in the hippy scene were doing it back in the 70's and it was a thing when I was a kid in the 90's. What is new is black people are doing it in rapping about it for the first time.

[@bobsworth7082]

@@Steve-ev6vx that's pretty funny because have a couple of balloons was what you do at a friend's house when you've got back from the club or at a house party, it's definitely not "glamorous", just funny. If you go to Brick Lane right now there's guys selling them 3 for £10 literally as we speak. So funny how the "rappers" have jumped on this

[@Steve-ev6vx]

@@bobsworth7082 the drug scene has gotten pretty dark over here. About 10 years ago now, all of the sudden the black guys that sell coke, crack and weed had ounces of meth in their pocket and started selling heroin again. Then came the fentanyl and tranq. The number of homeless people, even in conservative states, is insanely high and now hard drugs are cheap enough for them.

[@magnuslund2545]

I remember 20 years ago, quite a few people I worked with recreationally used them. We had them as we worked in an ice cream shop. We used one small canister per 12-14 oz of whipped cream. It got out of hand when a 1000 count box was finished in a single month. The owner cracked down on the use pretty swiftly once he realized they were used for more than just food service. The classics will always come back around as people are often looking for that next high. I hope society can do better than have people feel they need something to escape reality.

[@joeshmoe7485]

They used to call this Hippie Crack and you would often see people filling balloons at Grateful Dead and Phish shows. That was usually pharmaceutical-grade nitrous though, not this whip it garbo...

[@Elizabeth-n3v2u]

Thats where I first tried it at age 14 😂 it was MAD trying to get at the guy selling balloons, nearly caused a crowd crush

[@patmacrotch5611]

Three for $20!!! Three for $20!!!! Psssssssssst psssssssssssst pssssssssssst Three for $20! Three for $20!! Pssssssst pssssssstt

[@juliusstriker4465]

always had signs reading NO TANKS but they were always there.

[@jonathanwilson9763]

For sure. We used to bring tanks to Schwagstock and sell giant balloons for 10 bucks. People need to chill on what they put on social media. Ruining it for SWIM.

[@Qb3nsis]

As a Chef we need nitrous for anything whipped and even the festival kids know not to mess with the kitchen supply. I hate that my industry gets abused for this and I wish they would regulate the product even if it I have to start getting it from restaurant supply stores.

[@bushidobrown9857]

BIG SAME chef!! I know people that have bought more nitrous than most kitchens ive worked in

[@brad1426]

When I was a teen I thought I was slick (and got in trouble) for pouring some of my mom’s vanilla extract into my coke because I read it had alcohol in it. Not good at all, but at least it’s intended to be ingested on some level internally and the alcohol is ethyl alcohol lol. My main point is, this is a whole different level of brain damaging insanity. In college I saw people doing whippets and had enough sense to see that what it was doing to them was pretty scary.

[@Steve-ev6vx]

I have seen people get high off of it in the kitchen at several places I worked, but I was a fry cook and grill man, so I never messed with it.

[@simonthibodeau7082]

Preach, surely making it at least a tiny bit harder to get for y'all ain't gonna ruin ya and would go a long way in harm reduction. And even people who abuse it and who are already addicted will always find a way. This trend of literal children watching a few rappers on tiktok do it, walk up to their local smoke shops and getting these vape flavored canisters is beyond ridiculous.

[@DVNGXR]

​@@brad1426i mean theres an argument to be made that alcohol is a more dangerous drug than nitrous oxide, but at the end of the day neither of these nor any drugs should be readily available to children.

[@bryce.ferenczi]

That's not even how you do "nangs". You fill up a balloon with it and breathe with it. Social media trends are so brain damaging, people don't even know how to do drugs anymore.

[@JewTube001]

That is how you do it. Balloon was never necessary. Crackers are complete junk anyway.

[@Pushing_Pixels]

Bulb-Cone-Bulb needs to become a TikTok Challenge. You do it in three consecutive breaths. Head-spins galore. If you fall over or pass out, you lose.

[@TheNaughtyRancor]

Galaxy gas is just what happens after the 3rd gas station burrito.

[@abdulmuin3459]

I have seen documentary about this addiction in Australia. Long term can cause nerve damage.

[@npcimknot958]

Ya this girl lost her leg because of it

[@itsjustjulianhoe]

The fact that it's called GALAXY GAS... it can't be more obvious than the name itself and such a bold fucking move to make it so obvious and brand it that way....

[@ilikebeingsmart]

I’m almost 40 and I called someone who was 21 “a nice young man” today. It’s okay Coffee. Let’s be in our “way too early to be an old person but we’re basically there” era together 😊

[@TheCommanderTaco]

This story is giving me Juul vibes lol. My guess is they will try to scrub the galaxy under the rug and try to funnel products in smaller canisters through another company.

[@TheChosen1inc]

The funny thing is juul was never actually trying to appeal to kids. It was all the off brand knockoffs that were. Juul got punished, yet all the knockoffs are still doing business as usual 🤔

[@BirdBro2]

​@TheChosen1inc nah, every vape tries to appeal to kids. If you look at the designs and colors, they literally look like children's toys. They use simple, bright colors, and their ads are simple and easy to understand. it has been proven that they tries to appeal to kids bc most adults know how bad vapes are

[@TheChosen1inc]

@@BirdBro2 Juul was a simple black design that didnt do ads. The only fruit flavor was mango, the rest were like mint and tobacco. The idea that juul was trying to appeal to kids is wrong and propoganda by big tobacco. The off brand juul vapes are the ones targeting kids, and guess what those are still being sold while the juul company is the only one facing repercussions

[@huskycruxes7232]

I did a whip it one time. The “high” was quite literally seconds long and nowhere near worth the braincells it killed. I’ll stick to weed

[@ArtVandalay-ly2si]

It was a rave drug better felt off Molly. But you are right it's not worth the dead braincells

[@DVNGXR]

​@@ArtVandalay-ly2sidoesnt actually kill braincells unless you're breathing pure nitrous and not getting any oxygen for long enough to cause asphyxiation.

[@MakeItWithCalvin]

In medical applications, 30-70% nitrous is used along with the remainder being oxygen. That being said, this is in a MEDICAL APPLICATION with protocols in place if something goes wrong and it's well-known that overexposure can have lasting health effects too! What disturbs me the most is how people are so eager to post this up online and be like "YA DUDE" not realizing they could be one hit away from having half a day out with the undertaker.

[@Thanos1908]

It's the same story like "bath salts"" and "potpourri" that flooded head shops back in the early 2010s.

[@Fahqth]

I met one of the few recorded cases of a vitamin B deficiency on earth. He had an extremely bad whippit habit that caused it. Irony is, being aussie, had he eaten Vegemite once a day he could have avoided it. Something tells me there's gonna be a 'sudden' influx of Vitamin B deficiencies.

[@JJFX-]

A clever smoke shop would sell those marked up 5-hour energy shots at the register above a warning about whippet abuse.

[@JewTube001]

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. False information. it stops you from absorbing b12, you can't just take a vitamin at the same time to fix it. I know because I'm an addict and my psychiatrist told me this.

[@Caldella]

I'm sure these are only for proper culinary use, just like those glass pipes at the gas station that are "for tobacco use only."

[@bipolarminddroppings]

and those grinders for "herbs", or rip-off rolling papers (so you can make long spliffs without having to combine normal papers) for "flavoured tobacco products"

[@TheScrubmuffin69]

I forgot weed is still illegal in some states lmaooo that sucks

[@Fickets]

Reminds me of how the government banned flavored cigars like Swishers because they thought kids were smoking them as is. When really, kids were rolling blunts with them.

[@Caldella]

@@TheScrubmuffin69 The small glass pipes are actually most often used for stuff like meth.

[@FlyingGuillotine100]

@@TheScrubmuffin69 those little pipes at the gas stations are for crack homie

[@spoogtastic]

As a chef who uses the usual nitrous and dispensor, the little cartridges are tiny compared to the galaxy gas, it's ridiculous. This shit needs to be stopped.

[@myriadhues457]

I was wondering why these GIANT cans were being advertized for whipped cream. Like i looked at these freaking things and i was thinking there is no way any normie would need this out of the home.

[@H.LeonideSouza]

Restaurants would, but the avrg joe not.

[@BirdBro2]

​@@H.LeonideSouzanot even restaurants. it'd be impossible to portion out something that big.

[@Limitedonathios]

Yeah, those people on nitro hard look like excited fent addicts. The fent addicts are out of it, the nitro guys just spew vocalizations like “GLÆRrrrEAAAAARG!” while also being out of it. Huge potential for addiction. I feel bad for folks not realizing they’re starting an addiction

[@Psykomancer]

You just described 99% of rappers from the past 10 years.

[@svantewiktorsson]

It’s kinda like how you can buy weed seeds as “bird feed”, LSA seeds for “planting”, tobacco leaf for “making pots” and kratom for “soap”.

[@wayofthegrunt]

It’s like someone saw 01-06 Steve-O and thought, that’s a good life choice.

[@unholypaladin4702]

I love that media sources think this is a new problem

[@Usapropaganda-t7h]

I believe the marketing/target audience is new & it’s to a new young generation. This is what happens when you get older, u get to see cycles of behavior repeat

[@Sauce787]

The wide use of party canisters by minors is new, it use to be way harder to get tanks that big. And most kids never knew about whippets, or if they did only had access to way smaller quantities in the form of grocery store whipped cream or small 6 gram canisters.

[@Ekrooool]

​@Sauce787 How new is new though? They've been a huge problem here in New Zealand for atleast the last 10 years. You can easily order them legally online or go and buy them, it's pretty bad

[@Ekrooool]

​@@Sauce787the song Space Nang from a New Zealand group called Machete Clan is from 2018 which is all about abusing what we call nangs

[@JewTube001]

It is. Just because the drug is old doesn't mean the exact same number of people were using it.

[@valdemarramirez6015]

There is a whole rabbit hole of various "legal" drugs and paraphernalia. Poppers: sold as leather cleaner Novelty Glass Roses: totally not to be used as a crack pipe Purple Drank kits Tianeptine AKA gas station hero... Etc etc

[@James-gm9cs]

Some say they're including laughing gas free with every purchase of lunchables

[@nancycollins4109]

I've known two people who suffered strokes in their 40s from abusing nitrous. Like, regularly and for years. One was a dentist who later died while gassing himself in his office after hours.

[@MindGooJE]

there is no medical correlation between nitrous and strokes

[@kennydon]

Zillq vs the nitrous mafia might be his largest fight of his career

[@namastyle]

Standard chargers for culinary use are 8g, and you typically need 2 of them for a 1L whipping siphon, IIRC. A 2KG canister is only 125 batches, and would indeed save a ton of money vs buying a ton of smaller canisters. The obvious issue is that you can't actually load standard culinary siphons with these balloon-filling canisters without a ton of extra equipment like regulators and adaptors, but I just wanted to note that when I make whipped cream, we go through cartridges like crazy, and about 8 years back, prices for cartridges doubled.

[@OhTaKuSo]

So what about the flavour, would it effect the whip cream?

[@optimumplatinum2640]

@@OhTaKuSo yeah it would screw up anything you'd be making

[@simonthibodeau7082]

I mean yeah I can see how a single "serving" as referenced in the video, is actually a tiny amount of actual cream.

[@flowerpot-r4i]

The nozzles don't make sense for making food. They're made with directly inhaling from the can in mind.

[@Jgfhujnggg23342]

Jesus Christ *THANK YOU COFFEZILLA FOR COVERING THIS, no one is calling out this crap for WHAT IT IS, PLEASE KEEP COVERING THIS FOR THE YOUTH, PARENTS CABT BE WITH THERE KIDS IN THE CLASSROOM, THIS SHIT NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN ASAP.*

[@anyas5]

I actually use nitrous oxide for whipped cream! A tiny container truly goes a long way. We have it on a weekly basis for pancakes. It's delicious when made with vanilla, sugar, or cinnamon.

[@victoriafisher1923]

You can just make whipped cream by whipping cream. It only takes a few minutes with an electric beater and is also totally reasonable by hand. I'm not saying that you in particular can't use this short cut but really only commercial kitchens need a shortcut that efficient. Ordinary people at home can whip cream by whipping it.

[@anyas5]

⁠@@victoriafisher1923oh, I absolutely agree with you. But it’s so much fun to use the whipped cream bottle instead of whipping it yourself. The kids love making fun shapes in their pancakes. And it’s not very expensive on Amazon, so not limited to professional restaurants.

[@iheartlreoy8134]

It’s so funny how in high school being “high” and off balance and giggly is funny but being an adult seeing that is just sad and pathetic

[@tokyosan7906]

Reminds me of when synthetic weed was sold in smoke shoppes as bath salts for awhile back about 10-15 years ago.

[@last9up]

Whoa, riding on a forklift while it is moving. That is so dangerous. Not get hurt dangerously, but the forklift shredding you up while you are still conscious dangerous.

[@GuineaPigMan2]

The first person to create a commercially viable alternative process for fluffing up whipped cream is gonna make a fortune

[@Kaihegon]

As someone who watched people do whippets, I don't see the appeal. It literally turned one of my smartest friends into a drooling, falling out his seat and not being able to talk

[@perc3136]

Cause it feels good? lol duh

[@watsonwrote]

A lot of things feel good without causing brain damage. Why choose one that can cause lifelong injury or death?

[@perc3136]

@@watsonwrote that's very rare to happen when doing this

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

​@@perc3136 if you need to kill your brain cells to have fun or feel good, you must be a very boring person

[@FirinMahLazer1]

When I was in the army I watched a guy rip off a canned air container at the duty desk, fall over , and stand up right before the sergeant on duty walked up. He stood up and laughed and walked out of the door. That was probably the most reckless thing I've ever seen. He was about 30 seconds away from getting in deep shit. I can't understand the appeal of that shit.

[@Fleezblarp]

I remember kids doing whippets in highschool, I thought kids had moved on to the Tide pods these days.

[@josephstoiber8453]

Thanks for doing this video. This stuff is extremely dangerous. Had a co-worker that would do this stuff in bathroom etc. at work, then would have seizures all the time. Crashed his car outside of our office and nearly killed a person. He collapsed at work one time and I ended up calling 911. I was 100 percent sure he was not breathing. While on the phone with 911, I caught a glimpse of him rising up like Michael Myers and acting like nothing happened. Later, he was high on nitrous at his home and collapsed on his dog. The dog ended up being paralyzed, then was put down. Around 2 months later he was found dead in his house after doing nitrous again. This stuff is not funny or cool. People should be ashamed of themselves for having any connection to this.

[@timbenzel1751]

If 22k servings wasnt a dead giveaway, it has a handle on it...

[@wolfgangxstudios8766]

Ok, so one thing that I don't get is how their excuse of being used for cooking applies is for the flavored stuff. Why the hell would you want the nitrous to be flavored? Every time I've made whipped cream the flavor comes from the cream, not the nitrous. So why would you flavor it unless you were selling it with the intention of people doing "other stuff" with it. The boldness of these people.

[@hobojoe9717]

From my understanding, the nitrous is used to impart the flavor into the cream.

[@merlin9702]

Nitrous has a sweet taste. If you just taste the cream without whipping it up you'll notice that it won't taste sweet.

[@satratic127]

Its exactly for selling it to huff huff

[@victoriafisher1923]

@@merlin9702 You can add sugar to cream to sweeten and flavour it. You need a TINY amount of sugar to make whipped cream taste sweet.

[@merlin9702]

@@victoriafisher1923 Yes you can also add sugar but the main purpose of my comment was to say that NO2 does indeed have a very prominent taste in whipped cream

[@adam346]

I worked for a grocery store when I was like 17 and one of the big complaints was people leaving the whipped cream cans unattended because kids would take em', run around to the pharmacy or some other small area, inhale the NO2 and ditch the can. This was like.. god, nearly 20 years ago now. So really, nothing new by any stretch of the imagination... I genuinely thought they changed the propellant when it stopped happening.. nope, just went mainstream.

[@goodguybrady]

The void has come back to me 🙏

[@cizrek]

When I was young messing around. They had these pills they sold as "Plant Enhancement Caps" that you 'pushed into the soil next to the root' but in reality you just ate-em and tripppppedouthard.

[@lizdexamphetamine]

those were mephedrone iirc

[@imstupidbut]

lucky

[@johnosborne1873]

The promoter should go to jail - this stuff harms the dumbest, most weak-willed among us

[@Pushing_Pixels]

Yeah. The smart ones can spare some brain cells, but the dumb and feeble-minded can't afford to lose any.

[@kaik168]

I just got an email that my Coffeezilla Defense Fund merch is coming! So hyped!

[@TrapGambino]

Do you feel smart supporting a millionaire?

[@TheCommanderTaco]

​@TrapGambino of course. He is so rich we can't even make out the house with our plebian eyes hence the reason he calls it the void.

[@mordsythe]

Mine was delivered to my home in FL and I’m working in ME… :/

[@kaik168]

​@@TrapGambino He is being sued by LOGAN PAUL, do you realize how much money in legal fees that is going to cost. More than you or I will ever see in our entire lives.

[@SleepyMagii]

​@TrapGambino Your dollar is your vote, I enjoy Stephen's content and would support with ny dollar... Let me guess, you say that trash but will go buy some shit at Walmart or foodshop or buy some digital game or music etc without a 2nd thought... Real cool 😎👍

[@confessionsfromadangerousmind]

It's crazy how popular this stuff has been becoming. I ended up abusing so much of it that I experienced nerve damage and I couldn't walk for several weeks. I have some videos on my channel talking about it.

[@jonathanstewart8997]

I keep reporting the ads for galaxy gas on Facebook and they do nothing when it is entirely obvious that people are huffing the nitrous

[@geriatricvicenarian8208]

It's been a menace in Europe for a long time. So many high profile football players have been suspended for inhaling nitrous.

[@thecardboardsword]

it's what happens when people are stopped from taking good drugs. If good drugs were legal no one would be doing this shit. Football players will get high on whatever they can that will still allow them to pass a drug test. Maybe they should just be allowed to enjoy drugs in their spare time

[@judasdubois]

Coffezilla is hip guys. He wears local band shirt

[@djei8ht584]

I have done whippets sparingly when I was younger, and I definitely had one experience of extreme psychosis for like 30-45 seconds while convulsing before exhaling. Not a new trend by any means, however that doesn’t at all negate the negative side of these products

[@EarnestWilliamsGeofferic]

Damn, we were doing whippets WAY back in the day.

[@Funnyvid16]

As a former smoker of weed, this is the exact same trend as going to a glass shop and them saying "This is intended for herbal use only" loophole they used to sell them. Also the moment I saw Keem hitting this stuff on Lolcow Live, I knew exactly what it was. He wasn't making cream with the milk he was getting for sure.

[@gregoryboujikian6925]

Except nitrous oxide canisters are legitimately used for cooking.

[@Funnyvid16]

@@gregoryboujikian6925 Totally aware, but my comparison still stands.

[@russellhetrick276]

Thank you Coffeezilla for actually calling out the people making this stuff! As opposed to mainstream media who lost all meaning of the word “reporting”