Of all the substances to forbid, this one? Vitamin B12 deficiency, really now? How much of it do you have to take for that to occur? Also, probably the easiest deficiency to correct.
Also now and then someone decides to drive a car while inhaling NO2, which as you can imagine, is not really a bright idea.
These are rare cases but unfortunately these people are spoiling it for the rest.
These people aren't spoiling it for the rest. The government was always going to ban it because:
(a) the government and the opposition always favour authoritarian drugs laws; and
(b) they are unpopular and (due to ideology) incapable of solving real problems, so they announce terrible policies instead.
There was petrol sniffing, and then people having a cigarette afterwards.
The glue sniffing.
So many silver phials dumped on the pavement, now people are buying the catering sized canisters of Nitrous oxide, and dumping that too.
Ok, can not emphasise with that, at all.
> someone decides to drive a car while inhaling NO2
How? Why? It completely takes you out of commission for a few seconds / minute(s?) at best. Why would one take THAT while driving, it makes no sense.
It's not taking it while driving, it's taking it before it was purged from your organism.
Throwing shit outside of trash bins should be punishable by mandatory community service of picking up trash.
Interestingly, part of the reason it is still used is because it allows for a reduction in dosage for other things are also used as part of the cocktail prescribed for modern anasthesia.
I was curious so I went and looked. I will definitely be reducing my usage of it to only when I do psychedelics.
https://clinicalview.gehealthcare.com/article/use-or-not-use...
Aside from the fact that people get addicted and do this way too frequently, a ban might help prevent those kinds of accidents.