Age Over 60.
Appearance Gaseous.
I thought I could smell something odd. Have you taken your shoes off? No, that'll be the whip-its. AKA: the high you can buy at Wal-Mart.
Oh. So it's a cheap, easily available short-term stimulant, preferred by the young, the poor and those who do not have access to better drugs? And Demi Moore.
You're trying to tell me that a kajillionaire film star, producer and bona fide celebrity buys nitrous oxide in small canisters and inhales it for a brief, euphoric high? Like a 16-year old? Well, she was married to Ashton Kutcher.
I refuse to believe this. Where are you getting this from? TMZ.com – source of such showbiz scoops as Michael Jackson's death, Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade to cops and Rihanna's violent beating at the hands of Chris Brown. They claim paramedics were called to Moore's house on Monday night after she had symptoms of a whip-it induced seizure.
Obviously they've got close friends in the LA emergency services. Oh well then. How can I get wasted on whip-its? Buy canisters online or in kitchen-supply aisles of, well, Wal-Mart. In an emergency, the gas can be extracted from cans of Reddi-Wip. But only if you're desperate.
Why, for the love of all that is holy? In the moments that the nitrous oxide hits your system, the brain is deprived of oxygen. A friend of the Guardian says, under strict conditions of anonymity, "you get very, very dizzy, light headed and giggly. It lasts about 30 seconds, you stand up and fall down".
Presumably there are catastrophic long term side effects?
Well, it kills rats.
Do say Just popping out for some whipped cream for dinner, darling.
Don't say Just give it to the kids, for god's sake, it'll shut them up for five minutes.
