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Why would Xenon get you high? It's a Nobel gas and should not have any chemical interaction with your body. Maybe by cutting off your oxygen supply but that isn't how Nitrous works.
It obviously does something according to the linked study. And it’s been used as an anesthetic before as well for infants. But it’s not commonly known that it gets you high, because it’s so rare/expensive. Don’t take my word for it, studies have been done on it, eg: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11879212/ But the scientific studies generally don’t talk about how it’s actually recreational, but see how they compare it to nitrous which is a known recreational substance. There are a few recreational reports here of varying quality: https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Xenon.shtml
And I know I’m just some rando on the internet but I have tried it myself and it is true, and it’s a fun fact I like to bring up whenever xenon is mentioned because most people are unaware.