'Easily available in corner shops,-

1. 'Easily available in corner shops, Children can buy 'laughing gas' cannisters at corner shops in Manchester, have them delivered over the phone or buy them online on sites such as Amazon with just a few clicks. An 16-year-old boy was handed cannisters of Nitrous Oxide, known as Laughing Gas or Nos, by a delivery man no questions asked after ordering them using his own details on Amazon, Two shops out of 10 in south Manchester which were visited were found to be selling the containers of the drug and were filmed doing so in secretly-recorded footage. Undercover reporters were also able to have boxes of cannisters delivered in under two hours after calling Bolton-based Speedy Whipped Creams.The cannisters can be legally sold, for instance they are used as chargers of whipped cream dispensers. Laws introduced in 2016 made it illegal to sell the gas, which is decanted into balloons before being inhaled for 'psychoactive' purposes. In a statement, Speedy Whipped Creams said: "We do not sell laughing gas - we sell cream chargers. If we'd known the customer intended to use the product as a drug, we would not have delivered it Read: cream chargers near me