But smoke and tobacco shops - stores that specialize in inhalants - have been selling nitrous for years without anyone paying much attention. This is intended to allow it for culinary and automotive use. whippits, Noz, N2O - is so readily available because of a confusing provision in California law that allows its sale to those older than 18 as long as it’s not to be inhaled. A seller was surprisingly easy to find - in almost any one of the hundreds of smoke and tobacco shops occupying virtually every square mile of Los Angeles.
Last week, I legally purchased a recreational drug powerful enough that it can cause blackouts, paralysis and even fatal brain damage.