Jenkem: Urban Legend to Drug Scare

November 12, 2007 D. H. McKee

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Are kids across America really getting high on fermented feces, or has our national drug panic finally gone too far?
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Forget about huffing gas or chugging cough syrup. This week, Midwestern TV news crews warned viewers about an even cheaper, more nauseating way for kids to get high. “Dirty New Drug Threatens Youth,” KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa, reported Nov. 2. Three days later, WIFR-TV, in Rockford, Ill., cautioned parents about a “pretty horrific new drug becoming more and more popular in schools across the United States.” By yesterday, Austin, Texas, station KXAN was reporting that the city’s police department is training officers to deal with the dangerous new drug.
Just how horrific is jenkem, the newest narcotic peril? They say a good dish is only as good as its ingredients and, well, according to a confidential Collier County, Fla., sheriff’s office bulletin that somehow made its way to media outlets, jenkem is made up of only two: “fecal matter and urine.”

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