Jenkem: better living through chemistry

Jenkem is an inhaled gas which reportedly causes dissociation and hallucinations. It is made from fermented sewage (most frequently, the user's own urine and feces). Jenkem was first reported on in 1995 on the Inter Press Service Wire, and the BBS ran a news report in 1999. Recently, Jenkem has been sweeping American high schools. It is apparently still popular in various places in Africa.

The Wikipedia says: "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."

Jenkem is made by placing urine and feces in a plastic bottle and allowing it to ferment in the sun for days. You then sniff the resulting gas. If you don't believe me, do a GIS. I did, and got 20,000 Jenkem hits...

You do have to wonder, though, about outhouses and honey-pots. Does Jenkem explain hillbillies? I remember being at a Willie Nelson-Old 97's show this summer, with the hundreds of porta-potties sitting in the 100 degree sun. No wonder the lines were so long! Was everyone just jenkem-ing down?

In the late sixties, I remember people getting high--or attempting to--on various ordinary, and less revolting substances like glue, gas, and other inhalants of course, nutmeg, morning glory seeds, and banana peels (remember the Donovan song Mellow Yellow?):

"Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase"

Jenkem. Well, kids, at least it's still legal, unlike Cannabis (THC), Barbiturates, atropine, scopolamine, nutmeg, nitrous oxide, phencyclidine (PCP), Opium (Papaver somniferum), codeine, fentanyl (Duragesic®, Actiq®), heroin, hydrocodone (Vicodin®), hydromorphone (Dilaudid®), meperidine (Demerol®), methadone (Methadose®), morphine, oxycodone (OxyContin®, Roxicodone®), oxymorphone (Opana®), dextropropoxyphene (Darvocet®), ephedrine, MDMA (ecstasy). MDEA, MDA , mescaline (found in peyote and other cacti), cocaine, dextroamphetamine (crank), methamphetamine, dimethyltryptamine (DMT, found in numerous plants), psilocybin and psilocin (found in psychedelic mushrooms), ergine, LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide), amyl nitrites (poppers), chloroform, and quaalude.

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