Citations:jenkem

English citations of jenkem and jekem

• 1995 August 16, Joe Chilaizya, “Zambia-Narcotics: ‘Huffing and Puffing’ to New High”, in Inter Press Service‎^[1]:

  The boys at the garden township have discovered "jenkem," a new way of getting high.

• 1998 September 18, Suzanne Daley, “In Zambia, the Abandoned Generation”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

  Workers at the Fountain of Hope, a new nonprofit organization that works with the street children, say the children have even found a way of getting a powerful high from fermented human feces, a substance known as jekem.

• 1999 July 30, Ishbel Matheson, “Children high on sewage”, in BBC News‎^[3]:

  When they cannot afford glue or are too scared to steal petrol, these youngsters turn to Jenkem as a way of getting high.

• 2002, M. Lemba, “2001 ZAM: Rapid Assessment of Street Children in Lusaka”, in UNICEF‎^[4]:

  Reported drug use among street children was relatively high, with nearly one in four admitting using drugs, most commonly marijuana and/or glue, but also including 'jenkem' (fermented sewage), 'ballan' (uncured tobacco), cigarettes, petrol, beer, and cocaine.

• 2005 September, Alexandra Fuller, “We Just Want Enough”, in National Geographic‎^[5], →ISSN:

  The hotel garden shrieked with bird life, and there were crocodiles in the courtyard pond; the fountains on either end of Cairo Road blustered with fresh water, and the street children were mad-eyed (those who can afford it sniff glue or gasoline, and those who can't sniff jenkem, fermented human sewage kept in a plastic bag for a week or so until it gives off intoxicating fumes).

• 2007 November 6, “'Drug' Made From Human Waste Causing Stink on Web, in Law Enforcement”, in Fox News‎^[6]:

  The Collier County Sheriff's Office in Tampa, Fla., recently released a bulletin warning of a new drug threat in America — jenkem — made by fermenting human feces and urine and huffing the gas produced.

• 2012 March 25, Less Money, Mo' Problems (American Dad!), season 8, episode 15:

  Billy: You want some Jenkem? It'll make you all better. Sure, it's a natural remedy! Huff on this!
  Stan: What's in it?
  Billy: My body waste, silly.