Drug Scare: Kids in Florida are Getting High by Sniffing Feces
You can urine test them. You can take away their financial aid for college. But you can't stop the kids from getting high. Some people will try anything, and I don't think arresting them is going to help:
Information Bulletin
New Drug – JENKEMOn 09/19/07 Cpl. Disarro received and email from a concerned parent regarding a new drug called “Jenkem”. The parent advised their child learned about this drug through various conversations with several students at Palmetto Ridge High.
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. [Snopes]
This doesn't sound like a good idea. But what shall we do about it? You can't pop people for poop possession, or piss-test people for piss sniffing. Should we launch a massive public education campaign warning kids that fermenting their excrement and breathing in the resulting fumes will get them wasted? That could backfire.
So I don't know what the solution is. For starters, we should wait to see if this is a real problem or just another hysterical response to a couple gross, though isolated, incidents. If there really is a rising trend of Florida youths sniffing fermented feces, maybe it's just an overreaction to the Miami DEA Chief's recent claim that marijuana will kill you.
Update: The rumor site Snopes, from which this story emerged, has updated the accuracy status of this rumor from "undetermined" to "false." It's unclear what prompted the change, but it looks like this whole story might just be a crock of...
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Comment posted by mlang52 on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 12:02pmI still think we should give their brains full time to develop. Let's say, at least the age of 18. Get them through high school first! I shoot for this, as an ideal. Because, I know kids and they will find a way! No different than right now, though! Because, right now, drug connections are easily available to them (in the present system?) at school.
STF
Comment posted by krokker on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 6:53amHere we go. Another chance for a government job if you want to sign up. The STF... Shit Task Force. FTG
snopes
Comment posted by mlang52 on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 10:57amOh, you must be the real smart feller referred to above! You actually looked! I didn't! I didn't know what snopes was!Ammonia gas, could be very pungent and even damaging to respiratory tissue. I really think this "African" high will never get popular. But, you gotta admit, the drugs are "cheap as shit", now-a-days!
wow, where did they learn that?
Comment posted by rita on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 12:13pmPeeing in a bottle -- what a concept!!!
Feces power
Comment posted by holymusic55 on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 3:57pmI had a vet tell me years ago that dogs eat dog poop because they get stoned from it. This clarified why dogs eat poop for me and I quickly forgot this little bit of trivia till I read ur article about kids inhaling human "poop smoke", what we as kids used to call a fart.
Kids are inventive and will experiment with what is available to them. I would rather see them experimenting with a safe herb provided by God on our planet for our use, than human excrement!! The worst thing that would happen to them on pot would be a bad case of the munchies.