There were two tanks, the other slightly smaller and sour apple flavoured. They left both brightly coloured canisters near a playground. I didn’t know they made canisters this large outside of the dental ones.

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    yeah they just sell tanks now to whoever. young me would have loved this shit. always was the best enhancement to MDMA, cannabis, or shrooms. no annoying cracker or tiny wasteful one hit canisters

    but this shit is really bad for you if you just go to town on a tank like that alone. permanent CNS damage bad (plus risk of O2 deprivation). i do get people wanting to disassociate right out of this shitworld

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      Yeah, the little canisters are annoying and wasteful, but they do at least help limit consumption, and whippets are very safe in moderation. It’s so bad that people are able to buy a whole tank like this. You’re not supposed to hit nitrous like it’s a vape pen.

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        yeah. we’d do one group session maybe once every 6 mos to a year excluding the times i was at a rave. usually just have cannabis and each take a few hits and just enjoy the crazy time dilation

        You’re not supposed to hit nitrous like it’s a vape pen.

        this is brutally bleak. fuck.

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    i’m fucking crying at this
    i used to always see those little steel 10ml whippets on the ground in the car park where i used to work, guess we’ve come a long way since then

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    It’s hilarious that they sell these huge flavored tanks now, back in my day we probably inhaled a fucked up amount of small metals into our lungs with the small ones. I wonder why it’s getting so obvious with these nowadays.

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    Hooking up an non-rebreather to this like a Bane mask. Finally ready to deal with the batman, or anybody with the bat symbol, at this park

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    That is absolutely wack. That being said, nitrous is one of the safer drugs there is as long as you arent doing anything that needs good motor functions.

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      I like it at the dentist, but it’s the fact that I like it at the dentist that I’ll never try it. That bastard also prescribed hydrocodone once and I liked that enough to know I can’t do anything that addictive.

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        I’ve never gotten it from a dentist and thank God. I’d way rather get local anesthesia. Hydrocodone is an opiate and a pretty fucking good one. That’s for sure gonna be addictive. Nitrous oxide isn’t addictive physically and it at leadt used to be a really weird drug to be hooked on, still feels that eay ti me since the examples i csn think of are Dennis Hoppers’s character in Blue Velvet and Kanye. Its a reallt weird drug to get hooked on that ive never ever heard of people getting addicted to irl. And it’s harmless health wise, people depriving themselves of oxygen by sucking it down for too long or not having good motor control and falling down stairs or something are risk factors cause it does mess up motor control, but so does booze but aside from that risk it’s super safe. You’re basically comparing heroine and weed here except most people smoke weed which makes it less healthy than nitrous oxide generally. It does seem to have gained a level of popularity where it’s being used in doses I never did. We’d get a cracker and a few packs of whipped, fill a few balloons and pass em around but the high is closer to shit you’d maybe do in Jr high like huffing gas or dust off but cleaner and with a neat lingering high. It’s okay, but it’s not anything for a rich person to get addicted to. Do heroine instead if you have millions

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      Safer in some ways, but it is very addictive, and can do serious damage to your nervous system if abused.

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    I’ve seen flavoured ones this size fairly regularly. People around where I work seem to like watermelon and lemon flavoured ones most.

    Also been at parties where they roll in the 20kg ones. Don’t think they come in fancy flavours though.