Thread: Jenkem- a New Drug
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10-12-2007, 05:32 PM #1
Jenkem- a New Drug
Have any of you guys heard about this? I received an email about this. Apparently this started around 1997 in a war torn african country and has now been discovered by some american middle schoolers. The drug apparently makes you hallucinate and is completely legal but there is one catch........it is produced by fermenting one's own feces and huffing the resulting fumes.
i am serious. I did a few searches on it and the BBC did a write up on this in 1999. If any of you have heard anything about please I am dying to know. I cannot think of why anyone would do this voluntarily and if you guys have dealt with this issue in your jurisdiction I would love to hear the story. P.S. I checked this through and can't seem to find any info that this is a hoax or not.
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10-12-2007, 05:44 PM #2
Jenkem
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jenkem or jekem is an inhaled gas which can result in dissociation and hallucinations. It is made from fermented sewage. According to Fountain of Hope, a non-profit organization, Jenkem is used by street children in Lusaka, Zambia as a substitute for ordinary inhalants such as glue or petrol. The news reports give no information as to how or when the children first began manufacturing jenkem. According to BBC News it has been around since at least 1997.
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10-12-2007, 11:59 PM #3Forum Member
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How about a fart sniffing contest instead?
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10-13-2007, 01:10 AM #4
I had to look up more on it after i read the first post, because i'd not heard of it. I'm just so curious!! *barf*
Its soooo disgusting to me, what people with go thru to get high. They were describing the amazing highs tho too, of course. No thanks!!
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10-13-2007, 03:23 AM #5
I though maybe it was a mispronounciation of Jimson but, after rading the description, that's definitely not it!
Never heard of it."He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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10-13-2007, 08:53 AM #6
One thing is for sure, thats one sh*tty way to get high
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10-13-2007, 02:38 PM #7
LOL!! I was thinking about how cops could see paint on kids sometimes when they were huffing...now you'll have to look for crap stains on faces
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10-13-2007, 04:29 PM #8
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10-13-2007, 04:39 PM #9
I don't know about this people - the whole thing stinks to high heaven. I'm not collecting evidence on this kind of s**t detail...
Does this come under the "plain smell" doctrine of PC to search?In Vino Veritas
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10-15-2007, 09:29 AM #10
Like I said, I haven't been able to find any information that this is a hoax. The only factual thing out there is a BBC report that everyone, including Wikipedia, refers to. Its just so amazing to think that someone would take the time to ferment their feces in order to huff it. I laughed for about an hour straight after I read this. For all you SRO's out there, you have another reason to look out for kids hanging around in bathrooms. There is just so much comically that can be done with this....
thats some good sh*t, I am high as sh*t, That cheech and chong skit where they follow around the dog has new meaning, if this is true than it is just priceless.
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10-15-2007, 09:57 AM #11
"I wounder what great dane taste like."
"Hey man, am I driving okay?"
"Um, I think we're parked."Last edited by Norman; 10-15-2007 at 10:50 PM.
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11-01-2007, 02:03 PM #12Forum Member
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Just ran across this on Snopes http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/jenkem.asp
Seems as if they are saying its undetermined.
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11-02-2007, 07:52 AM #13
We got an informational bulletin about this from DEA. I had never heard of, or seen anyone doing this so I asked one of our undercover sergeants. He said they have come across it a few times.
MAC
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11-02-2007, 09:58 AM #14
Yeah, got a flyer on it. Says users complain about the taste of feces after inhaling it, apparently a taste that stays with them for a while, so it's probably not a good "date" drug.
The flyer showed the way of collecting the gas, which is to put a balloon over a bottle of...well, you know, and inhale the contents when the balloon gets full.
It's also called other stuff. "Winnie" was one I remembered, possibly because of Winnie the Poo."Say hal-lo to my leetle frahnd!"
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11-02-2007, 05:10 PM #15
Yes winnie is one of the names ....it was a confidential bulletin that we recieved on this....thankfully it's made its way public now
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11-02-2007, 06:14 PM #16Forum Member
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lol @ getting high on fermented sewage.
Pig Pen's drug of choice.
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11-02-2007, 06:41 PM #17
Gives a new meaning to the term, "Man, this is some good s**t!"
"Say hal-lo to my leetle frahnd!"
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11-02-2007, 07:39 PM #18
I heard about this on one of the radio stations out here (the A.M. jocks were joking about it) and I apparently I must have missed the first part of the conversation. I thought Jenkem was... ummm... well, if the ban hammer hits me I'll know why... male cum. I think I was happier when I thought it was that. Now that I do know what it is, I REALLY wish I didn't. Ignorance certainly was bliss.
R.I.P. Sgt. 1st Class Raymond J. Munden
You're service and sacrifice will not be forgotten.
Kieth M.
I once knew a guy who said, "I'll step over any nine to get to three threes!"
I knew at that precise moment that he and I would never get into a fistfight over a woman.
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11-03-2007, 03:32 PM #19
lol. after seeing the photos on the email my agency sent to us i cant wait to try it
Gene L, you probably got the same flier, the yellow ballon on top with another of a kid sucking on it. WTF
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11-05-2007, 06:11 PM #20
You know what? I think if they go to that length to get high, more power to 'em. Hey, let's sniff our own feces and urine, and smell like it for hours!
I guess if you're high enough, you don't notice that you smell like crap....
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11-05-2007, 07:44 PM #21
Yep, we got a bulletin about it too.
Complete write up of the process with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) - http://forums.officer.com/t187923/
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11-05-2007, 10:23 PM #22
Maybe it isn't human feces their sniffing. Perhaps it's kitty doo... in the local rag today:
Feds: Dump old meds into cat litter
The Associated Press
Nov. 5, 2007 12:48 PM
WASHINGTON - It's time to pooper-scoop your leftover medicine.
Mixing cough syrup, Vicodin or Lipitor with kitty litter is the new advice on getting rid of unused medications. Preferably used kitty litter.
It's a compromise, better for the environment than flushing - and one that renders dangerous medicines too yucky to try if children, pets or drug abusers stumble through the trash.
A government experiment is about to send that advice straight to thousands of patients who use potent painkillers, sleeping pills and other controlled substances.
Why? Prescription drug abuse is on the rise, and research suggests more than half of people who misuse those drugs get them for free from a friend or relative. In other words, having leftovers in the medicine cabinet is a risky idea. Anyone visiting your house could swipe them.
So 6,300 pharmacies around the country have signed up for a pilot project with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. When patients fill prescriptions for a list of abuse-prone medicines, from Ambien to Vicodin, the pharmacist also will hand over a flyer urging them to take the kitty-litter step if they don't wind up using all their pills.
Not a cat owner? Old coffee grounds work, or doggie doo, even sawdust. Just seal the meds and the, er, goop in a plastic bag before tossing in the trash.
"We don't want to assert that this is a panacea for the larger problem," says SAMHSA's Dr. H. Westley Clark. "It just provides them with a caveat that these are not things you can just lay around."
But the concern isn't only about controlled substances. How to best dispose of any medicine, whether prescription or over-the-counter, is a growing issue.
Unfortunately, "we don't have a silver bullet," says Joe Starinchak of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
No one knows just how many unused drugs Americans dump each year, or how many are hoarded because patients simply don't know what to do with them or that they should dispose of them.
Once, patients were told to flush old drugs down the toilet. No more - do not flush unless you have one of the few prescriptions that the Food and Drug Administration specifically labels for flushing.
That's because antibiotics, hormones and other drugs are being found in waterways, raising worrisome questions about potential health and environmental effects. Already, studies have linked hormone exposure to fish abnormalities. Germs exposed to antibiotics in the environment may become more drug-resistant.
Some communities set aside "take-back" days to return leftover doses to pharmacies or other collection sites for hazardous-waste incineration. The Environmental Protection Agency recently funded a novel pilot program by the University of Maine to see if consumers will mail back unused drugs - a program that local officials estimate could cull up to 1.5 tons of medications.
But it's not clear if incineration is better for the environment than the slow seepage from a landfill, cautions the Fish and Wildlife Service's Starinchak.
Plus, take-back programs require legal oversight to make sure what's collected isn't then diverted for illegal use.
Starinchak calls the yucky-bag disposal method interim advice - the top recommendation until more research can determine the best way to balance the human health, environmental and legal issues.
So early next year, Fish and Wildlife will team with the American Pharmacists Association for a larger campaign called SMARxT Disposal. The campaign will spread this latest advice through even more drugstores, to purchasers of all types of medicine.
"There is a $64,000 question here: Whether people really will get rid of it," says Carol J. Boyd, director of the University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender and a well-known specialist on drug diversion.
Say you're prescribed a week's worth of Vicodin for pain after a car crash, and you use only three days' worth. Most people would keep the rest, to avoid paying for more if they suffer serious pain for some other reason later. Boyd isn't sure how to counter that money issue.
But keeping the leftovers makes them accessible for misuse by children, other relatives or visitors. Stealing aside, Boyd's research uncovered that friends and family openly share these pills - "Use this, it helped me" - even with teens and college students, apparently not realizing there could be serious health consequences.
"The public needs to know this," Boyd says of the disposal advice. "What's not easy is, we don't know if it's working."R.I.P. Sgt. 1st Class Raymond J. Munden
You're service and sacrifice will not be forgotten.
Kieth M.
I once knew a guy who said, "I'll step over any nine to get to three threes!"
I knew at that precise moment that he and I would never get into a fistfight over a woman.
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11-09-2007, 02:47 PM #23
i cant believe this is still going on. yeah i got the flyer too. the kid sucking poop gas is priceless. there are a few searches that will return the story of a kid making and huffing this. his read through over the week or so it took him to make it is priceless.
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11-09-2007, 02:50 PM #24Forum Member
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11-09-2007, 03:26 PM #25
http://flux64.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/jenkem/
just look here

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