Could be a long post… I’m going to post a list of people
who used nitrous, for my own amusement
as much as anything else.

People who used nitrous oxide:

Thomas Wedgwood, 1771-1805, English Physicist

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English Poet (hah! as if this wasn’t obvious…)

Robert Southey, 1774-1843, English Poet

Humphrey Davy, 1778-1829, English Chemist

Peter Mark Roget, 1779-1889, Author of ‘Roget’s Thesaurus’

Samuel Colt, 1814-1862, American Inventor of the Colt .45 revolver

William James, 1842-1910, American Philosopher

Theodore Dreiser, 1871-1945, American Writer and Journalist

Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, English Politician (…)

Peter Ouspenski, 1878-1947, Russian descipel of Gudjieff

Allen Grinsberg, 1926-, American Poet

Gregori Corso, 1930-, American Poet

Ken Kesey, 1965-, American Writer

source: Erowhid Archive