Yes yes we all know the kids are shonking t-nubs or whatever, what else is new
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We need legal access to shrooms.
Taxed and regulated IV DMT could do more for humanity than any other singular act of government.
How about don't let your kids on a shitty social media platform to begin with. Besides it being a farm for data for the Chinese, it's been shown via various studies the platform is like crack for your dopamine system.
I was forbidden from having a MySpace account. It didn’t stop me.
We all know how teenagers always listen to their parents and never find ways to use technology without their parents knowing.
I sure wasn't dialing up to BBSes at 3am after my parents grounded me from using my modem. Nosir.
Just because it's possible doesn't mean it's not worth the effort.
I would say that most teens would find getting on one of the most popular teen spaces on the internet, which their friends are almost certainly using, worth the effort.
Jesus fucking christ, what even are we anymore man?
Chimps. We have always been chimps. We are returning to monke
N2O is pretty awesome.
Right up until you suddenly die of a brain aneurysm because your dumbass thought it was a safe legal high. There is nothing awesome about that.
Back in my day we called it wippits obviously others not me.
As usual for the type of screeching and breathless hit piece that these types of things inevitably become, it seems that two very distinct things are being conflated here in a probably deliberate attempt to make them appear equivalent.
The headline image shows a bunch of nitrous oxide cartridges or "whippets" discarded on the ground, and there is one lonely mention of nitrous down at the very bottom of the article. The article puts a lot of scary words around "inhalants" but stops short of defining which ones they're actually talking about, and I'm guessing (having not watched any of the TikTok videos nor do I intend to) that nitrous is not the actual, or at least only, concern here. Either that or they're trying hard to imply that nitrous fries your brain as much as huffing, say, tetrafluoroethane.
Doing nitrous (or whippets, or hippie crack, or laughing gas, or whatever you want to call it this decade) is neither new, nor is it particularly harmful provided you can manage not to do it in such a moronic way that you asphyxiate yourself or pathologically huff the stuff at the edge of high precipices or while driving or something.
Inhaling propellant gasses from aerosol cans, meanwhile, i.e. the usual sort of "huffing," is monumentally stupid and also a fast track to permanent brain damage.
Just make sure you're packin' the right kind of chrome, choom.
The newest TikTok trend and thus drug problem seems to be centered around galaxy gas. And they seem to know what they're doing:
Yay real information
The most dangerous thing about NO2 is freezing of finger tips, followed by slight headache.
But again, it's never save to inhale stuff not produced to be inhaled (but for ingestion at least, which can't be said for paint or gasoline)
Inhaling gasoline sounds like the fastest route to chemical pneumonia, among other nasty things. Signed, a professional fire eater.
Chroming?
This is exactly where my mind went. Thank you stranger
Great. A generation of Charlie Kellys.
At least kids don't get to smoking them cigarettes like they used to'
Chroming is just nitrous oxide?
That seems like a silly name.
the canisters are chrome, makes more sense than being named after the brand of paint but yeah it will always mean huffing paint to me.