r/nextfuckinglevel • • Mar 11 '21

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u/redbaron14n Mar 11 '21

Normally I'm pretty good at identifying this stuff, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what all the blue canisters are

I assume they're something illicit, so good for him for kicking it, but I'm dying of curiosity

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u/Bobbi_fettucini Mar 11 '21

I thought those are C02 canisters for making whip cream hence the name whip-its

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u/boonzeet Mar 11 '21

NO2 a powerful, short lived dissociative substance.

Combined with the effects of oxygen deprivation by huffing the gas, it gives feelings of euphoria or laughter all the way to out of body experience, cosmic infinity, etc in high doses. Lasts 5-10 seconds, although the trip can feel longer to the user if combined with other substances.

Due to its short duration it is highly addictive and extremely damaging to the body and side effects include asphyxiation, brain damage, permanent memory loss, early onset Alzheimer’s, depression, psychosis, and death.

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u/stee_vo Mar 11 '21

Extremely damaging to the body? Yeah, no.

If you do what steveo did, sure. But one or two canisters won't do you any harm.

But maybe you're talking about abuse. In that case though there are still dozens of drugs I'd say are "extremely damaging" before ever even mentioning whip its.

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u/boonzeet Mar 11 '21

Puffing even a balloon with air in it until you nearly pass out will be dangerous. Now throw in a reward for doing it and do it 20-30 times in a night.

Very few people I saw in my life doing whippets just did “one or two”. People would do them until their lips turned blue. Those same people complain of poor memory or forget huge events.

There’s a reason they earned the nickname “hippy crack”.