Aswad
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Nitrous is not safe. Have you tried it? The people I know who have, stopped when there was none left. If they'd been able to, about half of them would have gladly asphyxiated themselves with it. One group had a full tank, but fortunately they were using some sort of nozzle that mixes it with air at a fixed ratio; the tank was empty when they were done. I'm hard pressed to consider amateur use of nitrous a good idea, for this reason. If those were aberrant cases, sure, let me know. And being drunk does not bring anything interesting to the table. Ethanol is a useless drug. Variable dose-response, variable bioavailability, variable halflife, unpredictable LD50, unpredictable response, highly generalized response, and too damaging to raise any specific parameter to an interesting level without making it a very rare thing, without going into all the specifics of the chemistry (a lot of docs haven't, from my experiences; the ones that have relate quite differently to ethanol than those that haven't).
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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