Butt-Hash: Coming Soon to a Drug Den Near You!
If you're looking for a new way to get high, word on the street is that it's not illegal to huff shit (yet). You better get to it, though, because law enforcement has apparently caught the scent of sinful sewage, and they're not pleased. Neither, I would imagine, are drug dealers, considering that this new narcotic is made from raw sewage, which means we can all get high off of our own, free crap. The more you crap, the more you can get high! Apparently, a few teenagers in Florida are already in deep shit.
Yes, you read that right: human waste. The county's Criminal Intelligence Bureau has issued a report that "several students at Palmetto Ridge High school are experimenting with a new drug called "Jenkem." The bulletin, dated Sept. 26, states that so-called "Jenkem" -- the etymology is unclear -- originated in Africa and other third world countries where there is an abundance of its main ingredient: "raw sewage."
Makers "harvest" the drug by fermenting the sewage in a container with a balloon on top, which fills with gas. (And you thought making crystal meth smelled bad.) That gas is then inhaled to achieve a hallucinogenic and reportedly euphoric high, though how one could remain euphoric with a mouth full of that is anyone's guess.
I really can't imagine being able to intentionally inhale a lungful of poop stank. As it is, when someone lets one go in public, say in a bar, or at an amusement park, it nearly knocks me out. And not in a good way. Anypoo, a bulletin was circulated in Florida that claimed Jenkem use was a "common" and "popular" drug in American schools. God bless Snopes for clearing the air and proving them wrong.
ORIGINS: Jenkem (or jekem) is the common name given to an inhalant made by fermenting raw sewage (i.e. fecal matter and urine), reportedly used as a cheap means of producing a dissociative or hallucinogenic high (particularly by children in third world countries).
A Collier County, Florida, police informational bulletin about Jenkem was widely circulated via e-mail in October 2007, but evidence that Jenkem use is a significant phenomenon in the U.S. (or indeed, anywhere in the world) or that the substance can even produce the effects described is scant. The informational bulletin was apparently issued merely on the basis of a few high school students' having mentioned hearing about Jenkem in schoolyard chat, and its contents originated with a source who said he had fabricated them.
While it may only be a handful of bored kids with no sense of smell indulging in American butt-hash (or "fruit from crack pipe," or "waste," depending on who you ask), it's more common among street kids in third world countries, such as Zambia.
For you American kids thinking of getting high as shit, Perez Hilton has a public service announcement:
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