The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on the sale of nitrous oxide — known as laughing gas, which is typically administered by anesthesiologists as a short-acting sedative. But ...

Indiana officials confiscated this canister of nitrous oxide from a retailer. It’s illegal to sell nitrous oxide for the purposes of intoxication. The Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission on Monday ...

LANSING – A growing number of young people in Michigan are overdosing on nitrous oxide — a dangerous misuse of the same “laughing gas” that dentists use to sedate patients. Emergency departments ...

Washington lawmakers are considering a bill to ban retailers from selling nitrous oxide for recreational use. Supporters of ...

(The Conversation) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning Americans about the ever-increasing and potentially deadly recreational use of nitrous oxide products, particularly among young ...

Emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10 million metric tons were released into the ...

City councilors are looking at prohibiting the sale of nitrous oxide to those under 21, which was linked by councilors to a ...