It may be no laughing matter for Whip-It fans and Phish tour participants, as Supervisor Danny Sauter wants to ban the sale of nitrous oxide in San Francisco, in SF’s latest nanny-state hippycrackdown.
Of all of the drugs causing social ills in San Francisco, you would probably have to put nitrous oxide, aka Whip-Its or laughing gas, at the bottom of that list. Fentanyl killed nearly 750 San Franciscans last year, nitrous oxide killed precisely zero.
Oh sure, there were a couple of wacky incidents where a guy got busted with 100 tanks of nitrous outside the Dead & Company show, and where Bob Lee murder trial character Khazar Momeni was allegedly huffing Whip-Its in her car and got charged with a DUI hit-and-run. But these occurrences were mostly just a source of giggles, and were not really tragic…