Giggling gas ‘still illegal’

SELLERS of “laughing gas” will still be prosecuted despite the collapse of two cases brought under new laws banning “legal highs,” the Government says.

Nitrous oxide is a recreational drug but also a pain reliever.

Judge Paul Garlick, trying two people at Taunton crown court, said the gas was “plainly capable of coming within the definition of an exempted substance”.

A second prosecution for supplying the gas failed at Southwark crown court.