huffin ' Jenkem - and you thought cat pee was good?!

[snapper]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphic...072jenkem1.jpg

If someone can figure out how to cut and paste the text out of this image please do so.

[Cannibalistic_Lizard]

What are kids into these days!? That is just downright nasty.

[Pino]

Found already by searching on partial sentences on google. I can't seem to find the first paragraph.

Jenkem originated in Africa and other third world countries by fermenting raw sewage to create a gas which is inhaled to achieve a high. Jenkem is now a popular drug in American schools.

Jenkem is a homemade substance which consists of fecal matter and urine. The fecal matter and urine are placed in a bottle or jar and covered, most commonly with a balloon. The container is then placed in a sunny area for several hours or days until fermented. The contents of the container will separate and release a gas, which is captured in the balloon. Inhaling the gas is said to have a euphoric high similar to ingesting cocaine but with strong hallucinations of times past.

Once ingested, the onset of the high takes about 10 seconds - with the most severe hallucinations happening in approximately 20 minutes. Several articles indicate that the subject immediately passes out after ingesting the gas but then regains a magical/hallucinogenic state within seconds of regaining consciousness. The high has been described by subjects as a feeling of "being out of it" and talking to dead people. The feeling may last for several hours or days. All subjects who used the Jenkem disliked the taste of sewage in their mouth and the fact that the taste seemed to continue for several days.

Slang terms: Winnie, Shit, Runners, Fruit from the Crack Pipe, Leroy Jenkems, Might, Butthash and Waste.

[beentheredonethatagain]

there is already a thread on this subject
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/sho...ighlight=feces

[Pino]

But it was about the text. He just wanted to have it. It isn't really about jenkem.

[snapper]

This was a news article so SWIM felt it was better posted here. It is also the first published (ie- not anecdotal) report of such behavior in the US that SWIM knows of. It has been common practice in africa and (SWIM thinks) Brazil with street children, but not with first world kids. Darwin, where is he when you need him !!

[old hippie 56]

Ain't methane produced by sewage? Must be some good shit!

[beentheredonethatagain]

Originally Posted by old hippie 56

Ain't methane produced by sewage? Must be some good shit!

with about .25 cents of unleaded gasoline in a empty milk gallon , one could fly very high for a while, Never would poop in a bread sack and huff sound like any fun.

[snapper]

Methane, hydrogn sulfide gas, just to name a few goodies. Maybe some of the indole in poop turns psychedelic - any monkey wanna hazard an extraction?

[jux]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/406067.stm

World: Africa

Children high on sewage



By Ishbel Matheson in Lusaka

At the Lusaka sewage ponds, two teenage boys plunge their hands into the dark brown sludge, gathering up fistfuls and stuffing it into small plastic bottles. They tap the bottles on the ground, taking care to leave enough room for methane to form at the top. A sour smell rises in the hot sun, but the boys seem oblivious to the stench and the foul nature of their task.
They are manufacturing "Jenkem", a disgusting, noxious mixture made from fermented sewage. It is cheap, potent and very popular among the thousands of street-children in Lusaka. When they cannot afford glue or are too scared to steal petrol, these youngsters turn to Jenkem as a way of getting high.
"It lasts about an hour", says one user, 16-year-old Luke Mpande, who prefers Jenkem to other substances.
"With glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with Jenkem, I see visions. I see my mother who is dead and I forget about the problems in my life."

Symptom of poverty
Sniffing sewage is a symptom of the desperate plight of Zambia's street-children. There are thought to be some 75,000 in the country as a whole - a number that has doubled in the past eight years.
With the Aids epidemic affecting an estimated one in four adults in urban areas, and the government's harsh privatisation policies throwing thousands out of work, it is the children who have suffered the most.
Sikwanda Makono is an education specialist at the Ministry of Health. "Now that the economy is going down, we see more and more of our younger boys going into the streets.
"And girls too. If you drive around at night, you see very young girls looking for men, to merely get something to survive."

Abandoned
The children can also no longer rely on the extended family, once the backbone of African life. This traditional safety net is now on the verge of collapse.
Children are sent out onto the streets to earn a living, or treated cruelly by relatives already struggling to support their own families, or simply abandoned by parents, who cannot afford to feed and clothe them.
Victor Chinyama of the United Nations Children's Fund in Lusaka says it is imperative that the Zambian government gets to grips with this problem.
"So far, one doesn't get the feeling that this has been recognised as priority, or as a problem that needs to be nipped in the bud," he says.
"This problem is on the rise and the sooner it is dealt with, the better."

Temporary respite
Substance-abuse offers a temporary respite in an otherwise harsh world.
Nobody knows exactly where the idea for making Jenkem came from, but it has been used by street-children in Lusaka for at least two years. Nason Banda of the Drug Enforcement Agency is not proud when he says that it is unique to Zambia. He shudders when he sees the boys at the sewage ponds, scavenging for faecal matter to make Jenkem.
"It's unimaginable" he says. "It hits right at the heart to see a human being coming down a level, to be able to dip his hand into a sewage pond, picking out the material and not caring about anything but the feeling of getting high."

[Pino]

Hmm, it seems like a dubious thing to me. The Africa thing seems to be true. However that other people are do it, who also can buy alcohol; swim have doubts. Someone who also came to the same doubt, has found some reasons:

Originally Posted by http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_jenkem.htm

Comments: The Collier County Sheriff's Office in Naples, Florida has confirmed issuing this internal bulletin on September 26, 2007. However, Sheriff's deputies admit they know of no confirmed instances of Jenkem use in their jurisdiction, and when WINK-TV News questioned several students at a local high school, all said they had never heard of the substance, let alone tried it.

No credible evidence has been advanced to show that Jenkem use is widespread or popular anywhere in America.

For that matter, it is impossible to find evidence that Jenkem use is widespread or popular even in Africa, where according to the few mentions one finds in 10 years of news coverage the practice of huffing gases emitted by fermenting human waste was born. Every source describing this phenomenon specifies just one geographical location -- the slums of Lusaka, Zambia -- as a hotbed of Jenkem activity, and there only by desperate street kids who can't afford to sniff glue or gasoline. (Etymological note: The word "Jenkem" may be a corruption of "Genkem," which is the brand name of a glue manufactured in South Africa reputed to be very popular among drug users. In some places "Genkem" has come to refer generically to any form of glue or solvent inhaled as an intoxicant.)
Bulletin is based on faulty Internet research
I could find no media references dated prior to the issuance of the Collier County Sheriff's bulletin mentioning Jenkem use at all in the United States. The closer one examines this document, the more it appears to be the product of faulty Internet research.

The illustrations, consisting of photos of a glass bottle marked "Jenkem" containing a brownish liquid that looks like raw sewage, including one showing a teenage boy in a blue T-shirt apparently inhaling fumes from that bottle, would seem to verify the claim that ordinary young folks are doing Jenkem nowadays. But where did these images come from? They were originally posted, I discovered, in a forum called "Better Living Through Chemistry" on Totse.com. The pertinent thread, titled "I Am Trying Jenkem Tomorrow," was initiated in June 2007 by an individual nicknamed "Pickwick" who regaled his readers with an ongoing narrative of his alleged experiences making and huffing Jenkem. (UPDATE: The thread was deleted without explanation on October 7, 2007. The postings of interest are mirrored here.)

"I became probably the first person in America to huff his own shit gas," Pickwick boasted in a June 13 entry. "After breathing it in I immediately felt that I was passing out. I did not even have time to spit before I became unconscious. When I woke up my spittle had oozed out of my mouth and down my chin. I asked my friend how long I was out for. He said for about a minute, and that he had repeatedly tried to wake me but I would not wake up. During this short conversation I began to feel light dissociative effects come over me, accompanied by buzzing in my ears. The feeling got stronger and stronger until I felt like I was in a dream."

Hoax images turned up in Collier County Sheriff's bulletin

The trouble is, it wasn't a dream. It was a hoax. Three months later, in September, a contrite Pickwick admitted, "Yes, I faked it. The poop was really flour and water dough rolled in Nutella. The piss was beer and water. The pictures of it after it fermented were of a completely new bottle. I never inhaled any poop gas and got high off it. I have deleted the pictures, hopefully no weirdo saved them to his computer. I just don't want people to ever recognize me as the kid who huffed poop gas."

Shortly thereafter, several of those images turned up in the Collier County Sheriff's bulletin in support of the claim that Jenkem use is taking hold in America. (The rest are still cached on Google.com.)

'Chocolate Rain'

Mr. Pickwick's fabricated testimony got around, too. It was quoted on the satirical Website Encyclopedia Dramatica (beware, this site contains offensive language) in its own rather imaginative wiki article on Jenkem, which also boasted -- in revisions pre-dating the Collier County Sheriff's bulletin -- the complete list of alleged slang terms for Jenkem cited there ("Butthash," "Winnie," "Runners," etc.), as well as the now-familiar, unsupported claim that the drug is currently popular with American school children.

How anyone managed to confuse this Website, a loose-knit repository of sophomoric, racist humor, with a credible source, I don't know. The "Jenkem" entry actually goes on to attribute the drug's alleged popularity in the United States to -- and I quote -- "the success of 'Chocolate Rain' [last summer's runaway YouTube hit by Internet phenom Tay Zonday] whose lyrics implicitly refer to the practice and social effects of Jenkem abuse."

According to Zonday, the song is about racism.

Unreliable sources

It is plain to see that directly or indirectly, the author of the Collier County Sheriff's bulletin based his or her presentation on faulty Internet sources, borrowing photos from a message board posting that was later admitted to be hoax, and quoting invented "facts" from a Website noted for its far-out satirical chicanery. At bottom, the only thing demonstrably true in the bulletin -- insofar as it has actually been reported in usually-reliable sources -- is the claim that Jenkem, a homemade drug consisting of the fumes of fermenting sewage, originated in Africa.

Are kids in Iowa, Washington, or Florida doing it? I really, really doubt it.

It would be nice, if the media fall on this one and break their teeth. The news article I found:

http://www.winknews.com/news/local/10987146.html is showing clearly a
bottle with feces. On the bottle there is written totse. I am not sure, that typical people are coming there. Also encyclopedia dramatica had an article for a while on this.