While nitrous oxide is on the World Health Organisation’s List of Essential Medicines, which details the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system, recreational use is not necessarily safe. where they’d huff bags full of it at “laughing gas parties”! That’s right – nitrous oxide was being used recreationally for more than 40 years before it was used for anything else! But even further back in history, nitrous oxide was first used in the 1790s by the British upper class. Perhaps you don’t know much about nangs at all – you might’ve just seen the empty steel cartridges littering a dance floor, heard a distinct screeching sound coming from someone’s tent, or naively thought that your fellow party-goers who seem to be blowing up a lot of balloons are just working on their campsite decorations.Īlthough in our circles it’s primarily known as a party drug, nitrous oxide has been used since the 1960s in race car engines, since the 1930s to make whipped cream, and the since the 1840s as a painkiller and anaesthetic in dentistry and surgery. Nangs, whip-its, chargers, bulbs, Nos, laughing gas – whatever you call Nitrous Oxide, there’s probably a lot you don’t know about this substance loved by dentists, pastry chefs and doofers alike. Nitrous is legally available to purchase, but it is illegal to use it to get high (although anecdotal reports suggest eating whipped cream can lead to feelings of euphoria, elation, and nausea.)

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