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> When used as a recreational drug it is inhaled, and can make people feel relaxed, giggly, light-headed or dizzy.

sounds much less riskier than alcohol, then why not ban alcohol? Oh well, why wasting yet another opportunity to control people's behaviour?

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I live in London. The number of times you see industrial-sized cans of nitrous oxide thrown on the street is disgusting. Bars also have signs in the window that people aren't allowed in if they've taken nitrous oxide.

then fine the littering?

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