Police Warn About New Drug Made from Raw Sewage

wsbt ^ | 11/07/07 | kelli cheatham

[ErnBatavia]

"I can smell it now!"

[Red Badger]

I live next to a Sewage Treatment Plant. This explains a lot of stuff......................

[dragonblustar]

[Sopater]

I posted this yesterday and it got pulled by the Admin Moderator... Maybe his mood has improved...

[Admin Moderator]

Nah, I’m still here. Same mood.

[FreedomPoster]

There are many Jenkem Oracles over at DU and Kos.

[Roccus]

Are we soon to be afflicted by a wave of septic tank break-ins?

[LIConFem]

Great. Won't be long before we'll have to register and account for each and every "movement" or risk federal drug manufacturing charges. And dirty bathrooms will be classified as "Jenkem Labs".

Yes, I'm kidding... Geez, I ain't that far gone yet!

[Abathar]

I thought making raisin jack or bathtub gin was bad, but this makes that stuff sound downright pleasant...

[faloi]

Snopes seemed to think so, at least a few days ago. It’s getting a lot of air play these days. My wife works for the state crime lab, I forgot to ask her last night if there was anything to the reports. Now my curiosity is piqued...

[Abathar]

LOL!

[Just mythoughts]

Surreal .... I can’t wait for this drug of choice to become a political presidential campaign issue... health care everyone???

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

[Sopater]

Isn't this the same stuff that kills people when they are overcome by sewer gas?

Superior / Sewer gas was effortless killer of 4 workers

Four Family Members, Farmhand Killed by Gas Fumes in Manure Pit

[sinanju]

Lando says “don’t do toad.”

[Abathar]

Perhaps not a ping?

[Manic_Episode]

I'm going to have to start charging the wife for those dutch ovens.

[Roccus]

Do you Admin. folks argue over who gets to monitor these jenkem threads? I mean, the laugh potential has got to be enormous.

[Greg F]

Jenkem or jekem is a hoax (so far as its use in the west) originating from emails sent by users of the 4chan website[citation needed]. It purports to be an inhaled gas which can result in dissociation and hallucinations[1]. 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.[1] According to anecdotal sources and still unconfirmed media reports, Jenkem is as of November 2007 in the process of attaining a foothold among US teenagers (see section below).

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Mainstream media picking up on western use
Snopes (Urban Legends Reference Pages) published a report on October 30, 2007 focusing on the veracity of Jenkem. It’s conclusion was to list the phenomenon as undetermined, however citing both a widely circulated trip report from an American teenager posted to the online forum TOTSE,[4] and a leaked alert bulletin from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office in Naples, Florida which asserted that “Jenkem is now a popular drug in American Schools.”[5] Another website investigating urban legends, About.com has also issued a report, more analytic than Snopes, concluding that the recent media reports that Jenkem is gaining a foothold as a substance of abuse among American youth is doubtful and “based on faulty Internet research.”[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem