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.
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