Following Channel 7‘s #breaking news bulletin this week, touting the “new dangerous craze” of nangs, Fairfax has proved to be not much better – as the Sydney Morning Herald today reports on Sydney’s “newest party drug” describing bulbs as, “once it was used to get the house ready for a children’s birthday. Now its popularity has surged.”
‘Nanging’ out: the rise of nitrous oxide as a Sydney party drug. http://t.co/4XsxsuOfj4
— smh.com.au (@smh) August 21, 2015
Credit where credit’s due: unlike 7’s report (reacquaint yourself over here), the Herald does present information that has surfaced at least within the last decade.
According to the report, the recreational use of nitrous oxide in Australia has increased by up to 50% in the past six years. Beyond that, SMH claims that the stocking of bulbs at Sydney convenience stores has recently risen, after owners have seen a technically legal offering – ripe for the money-making.
Meanwhile, after nangs have inexplicably received unprecedented levels of media coverage since A Night At The Roxbury in 1998, nangcity.com.au is probably going freakin’ gangbusters.
