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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: BruceCampbell on August 04, 2013, 04:25 am
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Dear friends. I have seen an opening on Silk Road for a niche and underrated drug some of you might not be familiar with. I'm speaking of course of jenkem. Please discuss your experiences or comments on this substance here.
Below is a description of the drug and it's effects. I hope this inspires some of you to get out there and try something earthy, new and exciting.
Jenkem is a purportedly hallucinogenic inhalant created from fermented human waste. In the mid-1990s, it was reported to be a popular street drug among Zambian street children.
In November 2007, anecdotal American media reports created the wrong impression that jenkem was a popular drug in American schools. Several sources reported that the increase in American media coverage was based on a hoax and "on faulty Internet research."
Description
The name derives from Genkem, a brand of glue which had become the generic name for all the glues used by glue-sniffing children in Africa before the manufacturer replaced n-hexane in its ingredients in 2000. In the book Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest, the making of jenkem is described: "fermented human sewage, scraped from pipes and stored in plastic bags for a week or so, until it gives off numbing, intoxicating fumes." The process is similarly described in a 1995 IPS report: "Human excreta is scooped up from the edges of the sewer ponds in old cans and containers which are covered with a polyethylene bag and left to stew or ferment for a week." A 1999 BBC article refers to "the dark brown sludge, gathering up fistfuls and stuffing it into small plastic bottles. They tap the bottles on the ground, taking care to leave enough room for methane to form at the top."
The effects of jenkem inhalation last for around an hour and consist of auditory and visual hallucinations for some users. In 1995, one user told a reporter it is "more potent than cannabis." A 1999 report interviewed a user, who said, "With glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with jenkem, I see visions. I see my mother who is dead and I forget about the problems in my life." Fumito Ichinose, an anesthesia specialist in Boston who conducted a study on the effects of hydrogen sulfide gas, or "sewer gas," on mice, informed Salon.com that holding your breath, choking, or "the inhalation of gases like those produced from jenkem could result in hypoxia, a lack of oxygen flow to the body that could be alternately euphoric and physically dangerous."
Media reports
1995–2006
The first media description of jenkem came from an Inter Press Service wire report in 1995. According to a 1998 report in The New York Times, Fountain of Hope, a non-profit organization, said that jenkem was used by street children in Lusaka, Zambia to obtain a "powerful high." In 2002, Project Concern International Zambia and Fountain of Hope released a report entitled "Rapid Assessment of Street Children In Lusaka," where jenkem is listed as the third most popular drug among Lusaka's street children, following Dagga (cannabis) and "glue and Dagga" but ahead of "Ballan" (uncured tobacco) and petrol. John C. Zulu, director of the Ministry of Sport, Youth and Child Development in Zambia, said in November 2007 that jenkem usage is less common than glue-sniffing and, "Initially, they used to get it from the sewer, but they make it anywhere [...] They say it keeps them warm and makes them fearless." In 1999, BBC News ran a story about jenkem. In 2004, South African weekly investigative newspaper Mail & Guardian mentioned jenkem abuse in a report on Zambia's street children.
2007 to present
The Collier County Sheriff Office intelligence bulletin from September 26, 2007 which was later leaked to the media.
On September 26, 2007, the Sheriff's Department of Collier County, Florida issued an internal bulletin about jenkem based on a TOTSE internet forum post by user "Pickwick," which included purported photos of the manufacture and use. "Pickwick" confessed it was a hoax around the time of the internal bulletin. In November of that year, officials at the United States Drug Enforcement Agency said no reports of jenkem use had been confirmed in the United States.
After initially classifying stories of Western jenkem use as "undetermined," Snopes quickly reclassified it as "false." About.com also concluded reports were "based on faulty Internet research." The Smoking Gun stated the Collier county alert "may be full of shit". Drug research site Erowid reported, "the jenkem stories that have been circulating in the U.S. media are almost certainly the strange result of a hoax."
Jenkem use was reported uncritically by KIMT of Mason City, Iowa, WIFR-TV in Rockford, Illinois, and WINK NEWS Fort Myers, Florida. Washington Post columnist Emil Steiner reported that "a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration insists that 'there are people in America trying [jenkem],'" which the DEA agent characterized as "dangerous, bad and stupid." Fox News ran the story after the Steiner Washington Post column, mentioning Pickwick's hoax and retraction. In the same article, a Washington D.C. DEA spokesman, Garrison Courtney, specified that, "We wouldn't classify it as a drug so much because it's feces and urine." UK technology tabloid website The Register concluded that "the jury's out." ABC News interviewed DEA spokesman Garrison Courtney, who stated that, "It is in Africa, we know that… We've heard rumors and speculation about it here, but part of looking for trends is listening first for speculation. It is something we want to keep on top of."
WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana advised parents to "wait up for [their children] at night and not let their kids go to bed until they have seen them and smelled their breath." Austin, Texas NBC affiliate KXAN-TV interviewed a local teen, whose parent speculated on its use: "Once it becomes OK with a certain group of adolescents, it becomes OK with a lot more." Australian broadcaster ninemsn summarized American news reports. A syndicated report published on the web pages of CBS affiliate CBS-47 and Fox affiliate Fox 30, both of in Jacksonville, Florida, reported on jenkem and also referred to it by the slang term "butt hash," citing media reports from the Washington Post, the Drudge Report, and Inside Edition. This was also followed up by a Fox 30 televised news segment, in which Captain Tim Guerrette of the Collier County Sheriff's department was interviewed. A Florida syndicated newspaper article focused on the leaked police memo and included interviews with DEA spokesman Rusty Payne, the Palmetto Ridge High School principal, and a spokeswoman for the Collier County Health Department.
Jamie Pietras of Salon.com published a long piece on jenkem in 2007. Pietras interviewed a Zambian government official on ways to curtail use and also focused on the Western media scare. Pietras interviewed researcher Earth Erowid of Erowid and Jag Davies the communications director for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), neither of whom could provide any confirmation of its use in America. Partnership for a Drug-Free America public affairs representative Candice Besson also stated that PDFA had not previously heard about the drug.
The Enterprise Ledger of Enterprise, Alabama quoted a local narcotics investigator who believed it was being used in Coffee County, Alabama. A commentary in The Times-Reporter of Dover-New Philadelphia, Ohio said jenkem was "largely debunked," but that "someone will be stupid enough to try it." The story was also covered with varying degrees of skepticism in The Orange County Register, Evansville, Indiana Fox affiliate WTVW, and Wichita, Kansas CBS affiliate KWCH-TV.
In 2009, Bettendorf, Iowa amended its city ordinance regarding illegal inhalants to include organic substances. In 2010, an apartment building in Fort Pierce, Florida was condemned after police found leaking containers of human waste in a unit. One police official speculated the tenant was manufacturing jenkem.
In popular culture
In the 1996 "War of the Coprophages" episode of the TV series The X-Files, a teenage boy claimed inhaling methane gas generated by burning manure allowed him to see "reality as it really is." He later dies from self-inflicted wounds.
The Spike program 1000 Ways to Die, aired a 2010 fictional story about a rock-n-roll musician named Cedric, whose recreational drugs run out while his tour bus is being repaired in the Mormon-heavy Provo. After a roadie suggests jenkem, Cedric goes on a bender, culminating in his death by asphyxiation while inhaling methane from a port-a-john.
A two part mini-documentary was made in 2010 by Australian documentarians ViveCoolCity, attempting to recreate and then use, Jenkem, purely from information that US media circulated during the Jenkem scare of 2007.
Jenkem is featured as a fictional drug in the internet game Space Station 13
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I tried to read all that but I had to go take a jenkem... :o
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It's not jenkem unless you let it ferment like alcohol. You just pooped. Put a fresh turd in a bag with a little urine and all you're doing is huffing dookie air. Fermentation is where the magic begins.
I am the jenkem shaman.
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It's jenkem awareness week here at Silk Road. I'm running a jenkem still but it's been hard finding quality precursors recently.
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I received my sample of jenkem from Bruce on Saturday. He promptly shipped it when I ordered on Tuesday. External stealth was on par with other good vendors. Internal stealth was heavily lacking. It looks like a bottle of human waste. :-\ Could have probably used a moisture barrier bag or vac seal. I can slightly smell it through the bottle. I have not sampled it yet. I might take photos of it tomorrow.
All in all everything looks ship shape. 8)
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It's not jenkem unless you let it ferment like alcohol. You just pooped. Put a fresh turd in a bag with a little urine and all you're doing is huffing dookie air. Fermentation is where the magic begins.
I am the jenkem shaman.
I have an ancient family recipe, you gotta clench for like a week . It takes years to master this skill, and it ferments naturally inside you producing some of the highest quality jenkem available anywhere.
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Came here and literally laughed my ass off, and then learned more about jenkem than I ever have before... Worthy of at least a +1.
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It's not jenkem unless you let it ferment like alcohol. You just pooped. Put a fresh turd in a bag with a little urine and all you're doing is huffing dookie air. Fermentation is where the magic begins.
I am the jenkem shaman.
I have an ancient family recipe, you gotta clench for like a week . It takes years to master this skill, and it ferments naturally inside you producing some of the highest quality jenkem available anywhere.
If anyone is interested this user is somewhat correct in his methods, but after a week in the colon the precursors tend to become rather hard, which hinders digestion and fermentation. Think about the microbes guys. If you let the precursors sit in the reaction vessel (your ass) for too long, there will be not enough organic material for the fermentation process to take place.
In collaboration with Jack n Hoff, I will be releasing shortly a free article and guide called "The Jenkem Diet, How to get High on Your Own Supply". With a special dedication to our local administrator and forum member Libertas.
Foreword by a special guest to be reveled upon release. Pun intended.
8)
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I received my sample of jenkem from Bruce on Saturday. He promptly shipped it when I ordered on Tuesday. External stealth was on par with other good vendors. Internal stealth was heavily lacking. It looks like a bottle of human waste. :-\ Could have probably used a moisture barrier bag or vac seal. I can slightly smell it through the bottle. I have not sampled it yet. I might take photos of it tomorrow.
All in all everything looks ship shape. 8)
Going to need a reagent kit test before I believe its that true Jenkem HCL. Tisk tisk on the stealth I bet you could smell its goodness right through the bag! Excited to see the trip report :o
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It was funny at first, but getting old. Grow up.
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I took down the jenkem listing due to lack of interest in pre-orders. I will provide a free recipe and instructional guidebook to anyone who PM's me.
Thanks.
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I am having a problem with my bottle of jenkem. I do not know how to collect the gasses to huff. The bottle is very hard and full of pressure. I do not want to take the cap off and lose my precious jenkem. How can I open it without losing my jenkem? ???
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I am having a problem with my bottle of jenkem. I do not know how to collect the gasses to huff. The bottle is very hard and full of pressure. I do not want to take the cap off and lose my precious jenkem. How can I open it without losing my jenkem? ???
You're going to need to slowly off-gas the bottle into a trash bag to save the fumes and prevent spillage. You can huff the vapors from the trash bag, or even dump the contents of the bottle in the bag and let it simmer and allow precious jenkem infused fumes to collect for your enjoyment.
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I took down the jenkem listing due to lack of interest in pre-orders. I will provide a free recipe and instructional guidebook to anyone who PM's me.
Thanks.
I would be very interested in some "Hot Chicken Wing Jenkem" or some "China Buffet Jenkem". Could you set up a private listing for me? :D
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I'm only offering Kosher Jenkem at the moment due to religious restrictions.