Every party needs balloons. These just happen to be filled with laughing gas. “We don’t do it that often. It’s funny for about 30 seconds,” said a concertgoer outside Red Rocks Amphitheatre, who was ...

Balloons and cannisters, known as whippets, have been a common sight for decades in concert-venue parking lots, particularly in Colorado’s thriving jam-band scene at Phish, Dead and Company, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Over the course of a year, Indiana Alcohol Tobacco Commission seized 15,000 cannisters of illegal nitrous oxide tanks throughout the state. It’s illegal to sell nitrous oxide in ...

PLAINS TWP. – A Philadelphia man was arrested early Wednesday morning and charged with selling balloons to be used to inhale nitrous oxide. Thomas J. McGettigan, 33, was charged with resisting ...

Following a recent ban, the Costa Mesa Police Department seized hundreds of large fruit-flavored nitrous oxide cylinders and thousands of small chargers from local smoke shops. The owners are accused ...

DALLAS — Every party needs balloons. These just happen to be filled with laughing gas. “We don’t do it that often. It’s funny for about 30 seconds,” said a concertgoer outside Red Rocks Amphitheatre, ...

A man was arrested for selling balloons with nitrous oxide on the University of Pittsburgh campus during a Phish concert on Tuesday. Detectives working the event at the Petersen Event Center were in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One other risk of nitrous oxide — fire accelerant Re: “A common sight at concerts, nitrous oxide abuse is soaring,” Aug. 6 news story I appreciated your ...

Once a rare phenomenon, the consumption of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, has increased in France, raising public health concerns and prompting medical and legal measures. Medically, ...