You're enjoying the party when someone hands you a soda. You're enjoying yourself and then nothing. Alcohol is usually not served, which sometimes gives parents a false sense of security that their children will be out of the way of harmful substances. What is more surprising is that both nitrous and ketamine are currently legal in Texas. Both of these drugs have common, practical uses.
Nitrous oxide is used by dentists as an anesthetic.
However, when abused, nitrous can do severe damage or worse, turn deadly. Ketamine is currently legal in Texas, but only for medical or veterinary use. As drafted, the bill will add nitrous oxide to the list of volatile chemicals under the Health and Safety Code. Such a designation would make its possession, use, sale or delivery to a minor illegal if its use was designed in a manner other than the product's intended use, or to affect the nervous system, induce intoxication or other forms of disorientation. The bill would also add ketamine to the highest category of illegal substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act along with heroin, morphine and cocaine and would also prohibit its possession, use, sale and delivery to minors.