Nitrous Oxide in Pakistan: not individually verified
Also known as: laughing gas, whippets, nangs
We have not confirmed that Nitrous Oxide specifically is scheduled in Pakistan, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.
- What is on record
- Not confirmed for Pakistan. Nitrous oxide is named in no schedule of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Schedule IV of the Rules 2001 is the toxic chemical inhalants schedule and rule 2(1)(xxxvii) defines a toxic chemical inhalant as 'a substance specified in Schedule IV'. The heading is present in every copy of the Rules reached here and the list under it is not. Three sources were tried: the Sindh Judicial Academy consolidation, the Anti-Narcotics Force library, and the UNODC copy of the Act. The Rules' own note directs the reader to Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part II, pages 2735 to 2797, dated 28 November 2001, which is not online. So whether nitrous oxide is listed is not present in what I could reach.
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