{"id":21840,"date":"2018-12-11T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:18:06","slug":"calls-for-police-to-deal-with-laughing-gas-in-grangetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/calls-for-police-to-deal-with-laughing-gas-in-grangetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for police to deal with laughing gas in Grangetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> A community clean-up group is calling on South Wales Police to tackle a growing rise in people illegally inhaling laughing gas.\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><br \/>\nKeep Grangetown Tidy, who organise monthly litter picks in the area, said it regularly finds canisters of nitrous oxide and the balloons used to inhale the gas in parks and by the sides of roads.<br \/>\nAccording the drugs information service, Talk to Frank, nitrous oxide causes feelings of euphoria, hallucinations and fits of laughter by removing oxygen from the lungs but can also lead to unconsciousness and is potentially fatal.<br \/>\nThe gas is used legally by medical professionals as an anesthetic and by the catering industry as an aerosol propellant found in whipped cream canisters.<br \/>\nGareth Joseph, of drug charity Recovery Cymru, said: &#8220;The government weren\u2019t able to prohibit nitrous oxide along with the other &#8216;legal highs&#8217; because of its perfectly valid legitimate uses, and so it\u2019s no surprise that its use has become very popular among a certain subculture of young people.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe added that the drug is often used with other \u2018party drugs\u2019 such as cocaine and ecstasy to briefly enhance their effects.<br \/>\nFiona McAllister, a volunteer with the community action group Keep Grangetown Tidy said they frequently find the canisters in &#8220;every street in Grangetown&#8221;.<br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;I think people do it in cars a lot of the time and then they throw it all out of the car when they drive off so you often get it in spots where cars might park up at night where it&#8217;s dark.&#8221;<br \/>\nMs McAllister added that Keep Grangetown Tidy have raised the issue with the police at previous Partnerships and Communities Together (PACT) meetings.<br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;It would be good if the police had more resources and they could do something about it.&#8221;<br \/>\nSouth Wales Police have been approached for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A community clean-up group is calling on South Wales Police to tackle a growing rise in people illegally inhaling laughing gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[325,21,245,22,326,327,328,323,329,235],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-anti-social-behaviour","tag-cardiff","tag-drugs","tag-grangetown","tag-illegal","tag-keep-grangetown-tidy","tag-laughing-gas","tag-litter","tag-nitrous-oxide","tag-south-wales-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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