Jenkem has become a potent illustration of how fringe tales can turn into worldwide obsession in recent decades, in addition to being a troubling term in drug culture lore. According to reports, it started among street kids in Zambia in the middle of the 1990s and is frequently referred to in sensationalist headlines as a sewer gas high. This improvised hallucinogen was purportedly created by sealing human waste, including urine and feces, in a bottle, allowing it to ferment in the sun, and then breathing in the fumes that resulted. It was claimed that the rudimentary and extremely unhygienic procedure…