N2O: True Tales

True Stories of Nitrous Use

The following are unsolicited tales of nitrousland. As the first will attest, nitrous is not always a pleasant thing.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to use this stuff. I was given Nitrous Oxide in the hospital when I had a miscarriage---I had a horrible experience--I couldn't breath, I had an unpleasant out-of-body experience--I knew if I didn't get back in my body, and breath, I would die. I finally was able to get "back in." The nurses said while I was experiencing this, I kicked the doctor (I was thrashing around because I couldn't breath.)

A friend of mine had it at the dentist's office---she also "went far away" from her body, and couldn't get back. It was scarey and awful. My dentist won't use the stuff anymore, because so many people had negative reactions.

And both of these experiences were under medical supervision! Why would anyone try it without?!

I wish you would publish some negative experiences, as well as positive. (And why would anyone WANT to feel "disorientation"? I could see if it made you feel happy or wonderful, but what's fun about disorientation? I don't get it.)

I was checking out your N2O page here. You were saying you wanted info on how to get medical N2O. We used to get it all the time at school. All we did was take turns going to one of those gas places and say we wanted some. The guy would hassle us (of course). We'd use the story that we were having a formal dinner at our fraternity and that our cook told us to come get some so he could make whipped cream for 300 people. We never had trouble getting 60lb. tanks. Although the deposit (~$250) can be a bitch to scrape together, it only costs $40 or so for the N2O. A few of our friends had always tried and had troubles, but this story always worked. If you can steal a regulator (they cost $$$) from a lab or from somebody's kegerator, they make tanks real easier to use.

FYI, the way we do it with the tank is pretty safe and very effective. We would fill trash bags (new, we weren't totally broke) from the tank nozzle. with the N2O and close the bag up in our fist. Put your face in the slack end of the bag and open the fist a little. Then breathe in and out of the bag (like you would to fix hyperventilation in a paper bag) until you've hit your desired effect. If (and when) you pass out, your hand drops and the worst that can happen is the bag full o' N2O dumps out in your lap, but if you live/party with vultures like I do, somebody will pry the bag out of your hand while you're out.

I have had great luck getting MEDICAL grade Nitrous from local gas supplies by using the cover story of a street ice cream vendor. Obviously this will only work in the summer or when it is warm. It has never failed me yet. If you are a heavy user the people at the supply will think nothing of frequent visits. Most of them that I have seen have welcomed the business with open arms. I guess that how good of a bullshitter you are will also play a factor. Let me know how it goes! Good Luck!

Nitrous oxide is also available in very large quantities from the kind of companies that produce welding gas etc. It is used by ice cream trucks and Dairy Queen's for their whipped cream. I inquired into obtaining a large (say 200lb) canister, but after having to buy the cannister, rent the regulator and such, it was several hundred dollars (but cheap to refill) - so I never went for it for fear of arousing suspicion and pure broke-ness.

Hi, I'm sending this Email to you about N20 after reading your WWW page (nitrous.obtain.html). Its actually pretty easy to obtain N2O if you or someone you know works in the biology department of a university. While I was in graduate school at SUNY Stony Brook, I called several gas companies, and found one that was far enough away (this one was in the South Bronx) and told them that I was a professor and required a tank of N2O for our experiments. Since they were more than 50 miles away, they told me that they could not ship it, but would be glad to sell it to us if we picked it up. The one "problem" was that they did not have a purchasing agreement with Stony Brook, and would require COD. I told them that my technicians would be in the next day to pick it up. They did require a formal authorization signed by me. I took a page of letterhead, signed it Professor Edwards, PHD, and showed up the next day with a 100 lb. tank of N2O. We also paid a $100 deposit - the fill up was something like $79. We filled it up several times and had large Nitrous parties. However, this was 10 or so years ago - so it might not be as easy now... Good luck

Thank you for providing an unbiased and informative page on Nitrous Oxide. Responsible users such as myself like to have solid facts to back up my rhetoric on what I believe to be a relatively harmless intoxicant. I attend many "raves" in the L.A. area, where N2O is commonplace, and I see as much moderation as I do abuse. I try hard to educate people on the use of N2O, and this webpage will definetely help me out with that. I wanted to give you some add'l info that you may not be aware of: There are a few Auto Performance shops in L.A. that dispense N2O to unauthorized users. Interested parties can check out the communities of Whittier, Torrance, and Van Nuys, although of course I am not going to list specifics. What is good about this is that, particularly in Whittier, the dispensers consciously take out the Sulfur compound before issuing it to recreational users. I would like to applaud this decision, and suggest that any users in the L.A. area seek out these shops in order to achieve the maximum safety.

I also would like to express my slight belief that breathing in and out of a balloon accumulates excess CO2 and other by-products within the balloon, displacing or even breaking down the N2O. I doubt the N2O breaks down, but certainly you will use up the O and accumulate CO2. I'm not a fan of balloon blowing. - banshee

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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:48:49 +0000
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I just looked around your website some more. So, uh... gonna have some of that Church Air at your party? That stuff makes my voice sound COOL.

Stang

Anon
I once called a stationary store and told them I wanted an example of a dentists letterhead for my dentists office, to see their work.I said a messenger would pick it up, then wrote a believeable quick letter on the stationary, included a card and called the medical supply house. Picked it up with no problems, and then 2 weeks later, we picked up another. But, all good things must comr to an end...the tank was taken from us on the way into a california dead show!!!