Now acid...yeah. I don't do that anymore.

Jenkem sounds like bullshit, but even if it weren't, I'd never try it. Especially seeing how glue appears to be a usual practice for those who have...

mmmmmm, mushrooms...

And, can anyone answer if huffing someone else's jenkem correlates to whiffing someone else's emptied tube?

Not that I have a problem with the police dedicating their time to cracking down on fake drugs.

In fact, let me tell you of this new drug called "bangick". Basically what you do is grind down tree bark and mix it with rotten carrots and vingear. It creats a chemical reaction that is a lot like lsd. Bottoms up!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JENKEM

Fermented mixture of ripened sewage used primarily in Africa and third-world Near Asian countries as a glue-high substitute.

http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/high_as_shit

We have gone from coke and aspirin to
fermented body waste. Certainly a magical moment and benchmark in American culture.

Zappa once said that stupidity is one of the most important and least understood aspect of American life,
and that you have to come to terms
with stupidity and make it work for you.

He was right. Bon Appetit, everyone!

--- Jensen

Oh and by the way, has anyone else noticed the irony of this discussion concerning the hallucinogenic effects of fermenting bodily fluids taking place so soon after this weekend's Slogfest about Metro busses? Maybe all those people talking to themselves aren't mentally ill at all, they're just strung out on Jenkem.

That Sherrif's bulliten is based on a hoax.

Read here:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_jenkem.htm

Please don't be so fucking stupid about mind altering substances. Come on people!

I thought The Stranger is supposed to be representative of the side of society that is informed and knows how to have a great time.

Such mindless banter just gives anti drug people plenty of fodder with which to show how stupid the largely pro high Stranger crowd can be.

'Indole' is every where in nature. Aside from magic mushrooms and poop it's in our brains, tar and is a component in the sweet scent of flowers. It is a basic organic compound - a structure that many other things are based upon.

Now if you think huffing human brains, coal tar, and flower perfume is gonna create a fun high cause of 'indole' you must be dumb enough to huff shit.

As long as no one has gotten deadly sick from something like e.coli - this msut to be one of the best pranks ever.

Even this supposedly hip newspaper fell for it.

Twice.

THE PUBLIC INTERN!

Yes? Please say yes!

i love that one of the clever slang terms for it is "shit."

CALL THE PUBLIC INTERN IN!

It's just to get people to smell a bunch of fermented sewage.

Most people will try anything free to get high.

Smell a bunch of raw hot shit and you will most likely barf more than anything else.

Some where out there, a small group of people are laughing very hard.

Funny that cops fell for it.

Sad that The Stranger did.

This publication obviously needs at least one staff member who is actually highly informed and educated about drug matters.

This is not the first time The Stranger has slipped up over this subject.

Drug disinformation with the name Holden attached to it has been read before.

I mean you have one thorough penis expert on hand, why not get someone who actually knows the ins and outs of safely getting high?

You call that falling for it? Maybe you gotta back off the bong, doood.

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

kids do not repeatedly huff shitgas because it's a placebog. they do it repeatedly because it DOES work, and because it's cheap. i'm not suggesting you try it, but quit talking out of your asses.

There seems to be no real info about this on the internet anywhere - aside from the random flurry of news in the last week.

If it was big in other parts of the world, how come there is no info on it? Or historical references - the guy above seems right about that. Shit is not old.

Whippets and Freon are kinda new so kids discovering them recently makes sense. Someone would have gotten high on sewage at some point. Hell sewage workers (especially before good ventilation engineering was established) probably would have had incidences of being higher than kites before.

Or how about this girl at burning man one year who was in an outhouse as it was blown over in a dust storm? She got many lungfuls of some desert hot sewage. By all accounts, she was not high. In an environment like Burning Man, she would have set off a trend if she hadn't gotten high.

The gases from sewage are mostly methane. There seems to be no info on methane getting people high.

And yes we all know of kids cutting off air to the brain to get a buzz cause we have heard of people who did it first hand. Not with Jenkem.

And passing out for a minute may be disorienting - and dangerous - but it is not potently hallucinogenic and does not produce visions.

As far as Wikipedia being a reference point - please beware that it is not necessarily the most accurate source of news around. You should have seen some of the stuff that was put on it about my neighborhood by some poser kids who wanted to make it sound like they had a big gangster presence in the area.

So far no kids seem to be owing up to it which makes it more less likely to be true. Kids like to talk about getting high. Especially on the internet.

The only way it would seem believable is if some real investigative journalism with first hand witnesses was presented. The Stranger should fully dig deep here and make the intern or some other investigative journalist do it.

And I think Turdtrip is trying to perpetrate it cause s/he thinks it's way funny and knows some one will try it if the fake info keeps going.

Which is funny.