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14th June 2016
10:26pm BST

Nitrous Oxide, to give it its Sunday name, has massively increased in popularity on these shores and across the Western world, according to VICE.
You can't go to a nightclub or festival these days without hearing the familiar hiss of a gas canister or bump into a bloke selling 'balloons for a quid'.
Globally, of the 100,000 respondents, around 8.5 per cent said they had tried the drug.
But in Britain more than 50 per cent said they had tried NOS, which is inhaled from a balloon, and 38 per cent said they had taken it in the last year alone. That's nearly up 15 per cent on last year.
House parties were the place most people (72 per cent) had used it, followed by 48 per cent at festivals.
Around a third of the people who used the drug said they'd experienced hallucinations and confusion, 12% had nausea and 2.5% said they had some sort of accident.
A small minority reported side effects lasting over two weeks, including numbness around the face, mouth, hands or feet, according to the Guardian.
Laughing gas was one of the many substances banned under the Government's blanket ban on legal highs.Explore more on these topics: