Along with hundreds of others, I'll be inhaling laughing gas outside Parliament to protest the Tories' legal high bill

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Their proposed ban is an affront to our right to do whatever we want with our bodies

I lower the balloon from my lips and close my eyes. Sounds begin to slow down and seem further away. I feel like I'm moving at high speed, but through what, I'm not sure. My sense of time begins to slip away. I reach the deepest point of my journey. As quickly as I arrived, I return, blinking in the sunlight.

The whole experience has lasted less than a minute, and I'm left feeling energised and slightly disorientated. Within another few minutes, I feel totally back to normal.

The nitrous oxide experience is one familiar to large and increasing numbers of people - some 470,000 people used the gas in 2013/14, up 100,000 from the previous year. According to the Global Drug Survey, it's the second most popular drug in the...

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