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The popularity of laughing gas among young people at parties is causing concern in Swiss politics. Valais state councilor Marianne Maret (65, center) has now submitted a proposal, reports ‘Le Matin Dimanche’.
“We see that the problem is spreading,” she said in the newspaper. It seems that consumption is increasing. “The longer we wait, the more we will find ourselves in reaction and not prevention.” According to Maret, minors in particular need to be protected.
Nitrous oxide causes two to three minutes of uncontrollable laughter. Too intensive or too regular intake can lead to unconsciousness, suffocation, long-term paralysis and even death.
In contrast to Switzerland, several European countries have already taken measures. In France, the sale of the drug to minors has been banned since 2021. Possession of nitrous oxide has been illegal in Britain since last autumn. With the ban, the country responded to the rapidly growing consumption of the party drug.
Now the Swiss politician of the Federal Council and Minister of Health Elisabeth Baume-Schneider (60) wants to know whether they are willing to change their strategy in the field of prevention and regulation.
The trafficking and possession of narcotic drugs is illegal in Switzerland and is punishable by imprisonment or a fine. Addiction Switzerland offers help for people with drug problems: www.suchtschweiz.ch
The trafficking and possession of narcotic drugs is illegal in Switzerland and is punishable by imprisonment or a fine. Addiction Switzerland offers help for people with drug problems: www.suchtschweiz.ch
It is not the first time that politicians have raised this issue. But so far the Swiss government has not seen a problem: “The consumption of nitrous oxide as a party drug is a marginal phenomenon in Switzerland,” the Federal Council replied in 2021. At the time, Pierre-Alain Fridez (66) had contacted the Federal Council about this issue .
Nitrous oxide is mainly consumed from filled balloons sold at parties. By the way, nitrous oxide should not be confused with helium in balloons, which increases the voice after inhalation.
Visitors to a concert of the arrest warrant of the rapper (38) in 2022 were able to experience what nitrous oxide can do in high doses. The musician staggered across the stage, repeatedly losing his balance and appearing very confused. The concert had to be cancelled. “The gas completely turns you into a zombie,” the rapper later said in an interview.
In 2021, a fatal accident shook north-west Switzerland: five young people crashed their car into a wall on the A2 near Arisdorf BL. A passenger (†18) died at the scene of the accident.
The boys had consumed nitrous oxide in the car, including the driver, who was 18 years old at the time. He is said to have lost consciousness. The nitrous oxide bottle had recently been purchased in a bar in Basel. (she)
Source:Blick
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