Summary
The commission is backing a citywide ban on selling, possessing, and recreationally inhaling nitrous oxide, with exemptions for medical, dental, culinary, and automotive uses. The City Council takes it up March 23, and it could be enforced starting mid-May.
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Last discussed Mar 4, 2026.
Impact analysis
Enforcement would fall to code enforcement, the city attorney, and criminal prosecution; no direct cost estimate was given.
Residents, especially young adults, would be protected from easy access to a misused inhalant.
Smoke shops and retailers who sell nitrous oxide products would lose that revenue stream.
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