Jenkem - NOT Real - Not the Greatest Drug - Dangerous and Unsanitary!

To be sure, is completely inadvisable to attempt to get intoxicated off the gas that builds up from feces in a bottle. This will not get you high, is unsanitary, and may be dangerous.

Beer was invented thousands of years ago. Marijuana seeds have been found in grave sites with mummies in the northwestern Hinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China dating as far back as 2500 to 2800 BC. For thousands of years humans have been finding ways to "get high." Humans seek a head change to find escape, because of inherited genes making them predisposed to substance abuse, or sometimes to explore religious rituals to furthest extent in their correct cultural setting. Sometimes just to have fun.    

Cats like catnip. Deer particularly enjoy eating the bud-lings of marijuana plants and will wait till the right time for them to mature, seemingly knowing when they will be most potent and delicious. In Africa elephants are known to come from miles when the marula trees are in fruit simply because the fruit once consumed in their stomachs begins to ferment, getting them intoxicated. The marula tree is also called the elephant tree because of this. It's interesting to note that Amarula brand liquor made from the marula tree has elephants on its label.

But no one get's high on human feces.  So when I heard about "Jenkem" or "Jenk" a little while back I couldn't believe my ears. It was rumored by some to be "the greatest drug ever" and pioneered by Africans in the eighties, the "jenkem" hoax would have you believe that it is created by defecating into a jar, putting a balloon on top, "fermenting" the product by letting it sit in the sun for several days, and finally inhaling the gas the forms inside the balloon.

The rumor was that Jenkem was quite popular in the south and south east. Jenkem would be a low ball form of an intoxicant...as low as it goes. The legend goes on to say that regular users refer to themselves as "shit heads," and suppsedly some chop up and snort the residue from the bottle which is called (what else?) jenkaine.

With people as economically bad off as they are, the immature perpetrators of the hoax probably would laugh at the thought of "down on their luck" people searching for an alternate, affordable way to get high. I wonder if they ever promoted it as  it a "green" way to go (with regards to recycling one's own feces). 

As an aside, the term "jenk" has become quite popular with high school students lately. Kids will refer to something lame or bad as "that's jenky." Wow. Hip slang too?

What's next... "cockroach gin?" "Pee brownies?"

Sometimes I think I'm getting too old for this crazy world...