Nangs' at your door in 30 minutes: How buying laughing gas has become as easy as having dinner delivered

CHARLIE COË
9 December 2018
DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Fans of laughing gas can now have the drug delivered straight to their door as the nitrous oxide industry continues to boom.
Couriers offering a unique slant on the Uber Eats business model are offering the service across Australia’s major population centres.
Creatively-named businesses, like Nang-a-Roo in Perth and Mr Whippy in Sydney, offer to deliver the chargers for as little as $1-a-unit – with the latter even offering an all-night service on weekends.
Perth’s The Sunday Times investigated the new industry by making an order of their own in the West Australian capital – receiving 100 canisters at a car park meeting point within 30 minutes of making their order.
The half-hour delivery time is also promised by Whipped Dreams Delivery, which services the Newcastle, New South Wales area.
The resurgence in popularity of nitrous oxide canisters, also known as laughing gas, has been one of the biggest recent trends in the legal-high drug industry.
Dr Stephen Bright, a senior lecturer in addiction at Edith Cowan University, said those who take the drug should ensure ‘someone in the group is going to be responsible and look after the person who is doing it’.
Nitrous oxide is now the seventh most popular drug globally – excluding coffee, tobacco and alcohol, according to a 2016 survey.
But despite it being readily available from major retailers as well as delivery services focusing on the legal high market, the drug can have consequences on the user other than making them laugh uncontrollably.
Nitrous oxide inhalation can cause a loss of blood pressure, fainting and heart attacks if consumed in large quantities, the Australian Drug Foundation claims.
The organisation states even small amounts of the drug can make the user lose part of their vision, feel lethargic or in extreme cases cause death.
A Sydney teenager who fell to his death from a balcony on the Gold Coast during Schoolies last month had reportedly consumed nitrous oxide.