Talk:Galaxy Gas
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Does galaxy gas have anything else in it other than no2?
[edit]my friend told me it does, but he's one of those guys who'll lie to em'self to the point were he kinda believes it but also doesn't fully understand it. Y'know, a psychopath. Ihavelegs01 (talk) 03:09, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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Correcting the Ownership of Galaxy Gas
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Hello editors,
Galaxy Gas (GG) has hired me to correct a factual error here. I’ve disclosed my COI on my Talk page.
The second sentence of GG’s page currently says, “It [GG] is owned by SBK International, LLC.”
This claim is footnoted to https://anyflip.com/ftswb/pxra/basic/51-100. Paging through this PDF reveals that the publication in question is HQ Trade Magazine, which is not only unreliable; it also doesn’t seem to mention GG at all.
At the least, this claim deserves a “citation needed” template — maybe along with a caveat that “Some suspect it is owned by...”
However, for complete accuracy, we ask that this sentence be deleted, since SBK International has never owned GG; it was only a distributor of GG products.
Let me explain (this is a little complicated):
GG was founded in Atlanta in 2021. As reported in Rolling Stone, “Georgia state business records show that Galaxy Gas shares a business address with SBK International, a wholesale distributor of smoke shop products” (“How Galaxy Gas Took Over The Rap Internet In 2024,” 2024).
This connection — the same business address — seems to be the basis for the claim that SBK owns GG.
That claim is false.
Let me elaborate (again, everything here is directly attributable to the aforementioned, big Rolling Stone article):
In September 2021, a bicyclist was hit by a car whose driver, it is alleged, had bought a canister of GG, inhaled it, lost consciousness behind the wheel, then hit the bicyclist. The bicyclist died, and lawyers representing his estate filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against GG, SBK, and the Cloud 9 shop where the canister was bought. A few days later, the owners of GG shut the company down.
In other words: The evidence that SBK owns GG is circumstantial; it has not been reported as a fact.
On the contrary, a legal representative for SBK has denied that SBK ever owned GG. Rolling Stone quotes the following from the legal letter: “Cloud 9 and SBK are being conflated, perhaps intentionally, with Galaxy Gas to capitalize on some recent negative media attention that Galaxy Gas has received ... These are and have always been separate legal entities. Cloud 9, SBK, and Ben Amor have never owned an interest, controlling or otherwise, in Galaxy Gas. The sum total of the relationship is that SBK was once a distributor, and Cloud 9 was once a retail seller[,] of certain Galaxy Gas products.”
If you dig further into the media coverage, you’ll come across an article in the New York Times (“F.D.A. Issues Warning About Galaxy Gas and Other Nitrous Products,” 2025), which says, “The original owners of the Galaxy Gas brand sold it to another company in the fall.”
The link on the latter words points to a big article in New York Magazine (“The Next Drug Epidemic Is Blue Raspberry Flavored,” 2025), which reports that the new headquarters of GG are physically close to the headquarters of SBK:
“On October 3, [2021,] they [Sammy, Ben, and Karim Amor] quietly sold the [GG] brand. ‘Once we saw social media users posting about nitrous oxide misuse and using the Galaxy Gas brand name as part of that content, we stopped selling it and sold the Galaxy Gas company,’ the brothers wrote in a statement ... They declined to disclose who these new owners are, but business records show the trademark for Galaxy Gas was sold for $1 to a newly registered entity. Its address is listed as an industrial park in Kennesaw [a city near Atlanta]: a nine-minute drive from the corporate headquarters of SBK.”
In other words: There is no reporting that SBK does indeed own GG. And since Wikipedia does not traffic in rumors or speculation, it seems that the second sentence of GG’s page — “It is owned by SBK International, LLC” — ought to be deleted.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks for your consideration.
Signed,
BlueRoses13 (talk) 15:59, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
Go ahead: I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page. GoldRomean (talk) 18:57, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much, @GoldRomean! Done. Signed, BlueRoses13 (talk) 12:00, 6 July 2025 (UTC)
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