One of the best kept secrets in the drug world is how well nitrous combines with psychedelics. It can make one hit of acid feel like ten hits of acid for about 60 seconds, which is a safer way to do some deep mental exploration without actually taking 10 hits of acid and riding that massive high for 12 hours.
Now, the safety information for anyone who hears that and gets a bright idea:
Nitrous oxide in recreational amounts inhibits the bodies ability to absorb B12 for days to a week. People who reuse within that window end up with a big B12 deficiency that can cause huge problems to multiple body systems. Anyone using nitrous should take a break of a month or longer between uses and be supplementing with vitamins to keep your levels up. You are safer doing more in a session and taking a long break than you are doing less of it very frequently.
The reason to use a balloon to inhale the nitrous rather than taking it straight out of the can like Steve O is that the nitrous comes out very cold and can have super frozen fluid that sprays out if held upside down. Dispensing it into a balloon and then inhaling from the balloon allows it to warm up so it doesn’t freeze your throat and causes you to suffocate or get freezer burn in your lungs.
Your brain needs oxygen. Take at least two deep breaths of oxygen for every one inhale of nitrous. Nitrous is heavier than air, so make sure to really exhale when you’re inhaling fresh oxygen. If your lips look blue, you need more oxygen. Make sure the room is well ventilated—it can create an invisible intoxicating cloud in enclosed spaces. This is especially risky if you have a tank that gets a leak because you’ll be too fucked up to walk yourself out of the closet to safety.
And my final pro tip: don’t look up when you’re inhaling the balloon! Your spit will dribble in the balloon and collect in the bottom, so if you tilt the balloon up, you will get Poseidon’s pickleback directly into your mouth, and when you’re already tripping, that is basically the final circle of hell.
Just don’t breath the shit, safer still. There are ways to do deep mental exploration without drugs.
But if you do, do it as safely as possible.
Thanks for trying to educate people on this matter.
What are the blue pills? Or is this all nitrous canisters?
As a man of culture, I can confirm that those are all nitrous canisters. I can also confirm that they are a bad brand, and that people should seek more pure canisters if they want to really know what that face is for.
Is that Steveo?
Thanks
Done this like five times ever and it is pretty great. Luckily it’s expensive. You do feel pretty fried the next day depending on how hard you went.
Ah yes, Brain damage in a canister.
Only if used very irresponsibly. You can inhale 500 of those canisters in a night, just make sure to breathe air between hits and take a break of a few weeks afterwards, let your B12 regenerate and youre good. Probably less harmful than a bottle of wine. Luckily the war on drugs gave us extensive education to avoid such silly mistakes and handle drugs with care. /s
if you tell yourself that to feel yourself more safe I’m not gonna break the spell.
But damn I was waiting to see what kind of comment addicts would leave.
500 canisters darn it!
like only thinking about the money people may spend to get high instead of using it for literally whatever else.
I dont know what youre on about. I dont even use Nitrous Oxide regularly, like a short session every half year or so. Im simply trying to educate people with unbased prejudices about the actual harms instead of fearmongering. A single canister is just as harmful (assuming other basic safety precautions like a balloon, lying down, breathing enough air) as 500 at a time, thats what I was trying to convey (one canister like the ones in the picture is a single dose as in a single breath which will get you sedated for about a minute, for those who dont know) I dont know if its even realistic to use so many in a single day. That would be hours of constant use.
The point Im trying to make is 1 canister on monday and 1 canister on friday is way worse for long term damages to the body than 500 on monday with a break afterwards. Its important to know for people who want to try it because its counterintuitive and differs from other drugs in that regard. Just going in uneducated like “Im not even doing that much, just once every few days” is actually harmful and easily avoidable.
Also, why judge what people spend their money on to have fun? Are you only spending it for ending wars and feeding the hungry? I assume you dont have a TV, a PC, novels, candy, fun with friends, coz those are all just hedonistic and you should judge them the same way. Oh and obviously you dont drink or smoke, right? Because society evolving in a way that made us embrace two of the most harmful drugs ever known, keeping them legal and socially accepted, does not make them less harmful. Caffeine and chocolate (theobromine) are also drugs with worse effects (even if neglectable compared to most other drugs) on the body than N2O btw. Judging people for using one drug and not for using an other would just be double standard.
If you think Nitrous Oxide has unavoidable risks, you are free to do your research and provide some sources. I will gladly be proven wrong by scientific research.
Edit: rereading my comment above, it really does sound too positive in favor of N2O, I will editi it. I dont want people to underestimate the substance either.
Boy dinner
Nice tattoo on his arm
Should’ve seen it before the coverup.
#MadeIt
Now whippet. Whippet it good.
First you gotta shape it up. Get it straight.
SNAP!
This image is fucken hilarious but if you have ever been there I hope you get out. Shit sucks.
I watched him live on Tom Green’s live stream from his living room during this era, right as he was hitting rock bottom.
He got out. And so can anyone else reading this.
He got clean right? And now talks about how addiction fucked him up. Have a lot of respect for that as someone who is sober now too. Shit’s hard sometimes.
He went clean AND vegan and his doctor told him he had the cleanest bloodwork he’d ever seen. Which is to say equally clean as everybody else whose bloodwork came up clean.
Decent podcast too where he talks to other people about similar stuff.
Yeah, this photo was actually one of the things that he credits with helping him get clean. Because this was basically rock bottom for him, and seeing this photo in tabloids was a large part of what made him realize how bad his addiction truly was.
He did the same thing that a lot of addicts do, and basically did a full 180 into health and fitness instead. Basically replaced the drug high with a workout high.
Mad respect
he just shifted to a vegetal addiction
It’s kinda funny with the cigarette just dangling there too. Like no matter how fucked up he is, he can still hold on to that stogie.
One thing I noticed as I got older and got to know people a bit better… Smokers and vapers almost always use drugs or have been addicted to drugs. It’s like the clearest sign that someone is willing to do something to feel altered and sacrifice personal health for it, and continue to make that sacrifice daily.
People that are willing to make that specific nicotine trade almost always do it with various other addictive substances. It’s kind of fascinating, that something so visible becomes such an obvious tell of other behavior people are terrified to exhibit.
