On the morning of November 27, the National Assembly discussed in the hall the draft Law on Investment (amended).
Speaking, delegate Pham Trong Nhan (HCMC Delegation) said that Article 6 of the draft law has detailed regulations on sectors and professions where business investment is prohibited. This is the first ban of the legal system, establishing red lines that no subject is allowed to cross.
The delegate analyzed that N2O gas causes users (most of whom are students) to suffer both nerve damage and addiction, making it difficult to recover. It is impossible for a neurodegenerative and addictive substance like N2O gas to exist in the list of legal investment and business industries.
"We do not have official statistics on the rate of people using laughing gas. No data is not because laughing gas is harmless but because it operates completely outside the control of the State," said the delegate.
Many countries in the world have banned or strictly controlled this item, including the UK where it is absolutely banned; the Netherlands where it is banned from selling and owning; Thailand, Japan, and South Korea where it is strictly controlled; the US where it is banned from providing N2O for entertainment purposes.
In Vietnam, the paradox of N2O - a product warned by health care, police, and the press to speak out but outside the law, is not regulated in the provisions prohibiting investment and business.
According to delegate Pham Trong Nhan, this product is creating a 5-no" market: Unlicensed, no quality standards, no doc doing inspection, no traceability, no periodic medical reports.
A market operating in a banned zone, without data, without legal points, is beyond the control of the State. It is not that we cannot manage it, but that market cannot be managed. The only solution is to close the N2O laughing gas in Article 6 of the draft law.
If we do not lock down this legal "blind spot" today, we will certainly have to pay the price in the future," the delegate emphasized.
The delegate said that regular use of N2O can cause disorders such as: a feeling of acupressure in the head of the limbs and wheezing, causing gas disorders, memory disorders, sleep disorders, affecting the heart, lowering blood pressure, anemia in the brain.
Using laughing gas containing N2O gas is especially dangerous when used together with some other drugs, causing loss of control of behavioral ability, causing disorder and danger to society.
According to the delegate, the scary thing is not only the chemicals that the majority of users are students, students, and young people who are easily curious and enticed. The law was born to protect vulnerable groups, not to pave the way for these products, it is impossible for the younger generation - the valuable assets of a country - to trade their health and life for business profits alone.
Therefore, he proposed to add a new regulation prohibiting absolutely investment in the business of laughing gas, N2O gas for entertainment purposes and other spirit- oriented substances to Article 6 of the draft law.
At the same time, the Government is assigned to develop criteria to identify new spirit sources for timely updates; review all industrial gases and food gases to prevent the exploitation of commercial covers to poison young people.
