'Whippits' ban? San Mateo County supervisors to discuss prohibiting the sale of nitrous oxide

(Crohn) – The San Matteo County Council will be Looking at the ban Selling Nitrose oxide products known as “Whippits”, at a meeting on Tuesday.

Whippets is a form of inhalation, which customers can currently buy in smoke stores in unpaved areas in San Matteo Province, according to the supervisory agenda table. Drug control says that inhalation “is invisible substances and fluctuations in common home products that produce chemical fumes that are inhaled to urge effects with psychological or mutual effect.”

The supervisor David Kaniba and Ray Muller are scheduled Provide a decree It aims to ban the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide for inhalation in San Matteo County.

“Children misuse nitrous oxide,” Kaniba said in a statement on Monday. “The data shows misuse and abuse of nitrous oxide or [whippits] It can cause serious health complications and may threaten life negatively affect the user’s physical and psychological health. Despite the risk of nitrose use, recreational use has rapidly increased among young people around the world and this is why we are urgently dealt with. “

“Whippit” canisters. (FDA)

According to FDA, nitrous oxide products are sold in cans, tanks, or shipping devices and marketing as a driving food processing with a flavor or unprecedented used to dispense products such as whipped cream.

“The abuse of deliberate contents or inhalation of content can lead to serious harmful health events, including death,” says FDA.

the Countries of the National Library of Medicine “The prolonged use of nitrous oxide can have a nervous continuation due to a functional disabling of vitamin B12.”

If it is approved, the decree in which any person is violated can be condemned with a mental crime of $ 1,000 or up to 6 months in the province’s prison. Companies in violation of the law may face the cancellation of retail permits for tobacco and business licenses.

The law still allows the sale of nitrose oxide as foods for food, to enhance the performance of the car, for the purpose of medical care or teeth, for research, development and other legal exemptions.

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