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At the end of March, the UK government announced that the possession of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, will soon become a criminal offence. But how dangerous is it? David Nutt, the Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, explains the drug’s effects, its current legal status and
