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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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  • That CAN'T be the doctor's real name

    You're telling me that for an article on inhaling fecal aromas you actually found a doctor named Fume-ito Itchy Nose? methinks there is more bullshit here than meets the eye...

  • @That Can't Be the Doctor's Real Name

    Well why the heck can' it?

    There's a "Harry C Beaver", Gynocologist, and a "Richard Head", Lawyer, in Washington D.C. and Fairfax VA respectively.

    That'd make for a few yucks I'd bet.

  • alas

    The bathroom fan industry in the USA is so miserably behind in technology that teens have now realized aside from smelling it, smoking your own crap can get you high.....

  • Banana peels?

    When I was in kindergarten, I heard that hippies were scraping, drying and smoking banana peels. My monther, who was quite the Drama Llama, rushed us kids off to the doctor to have him talk to us about smoking banana peels. (Why a five and seven year old would smoke banana peels was beyond me). He told us that he and his teenaged daughter spent an evening trying it and it didn't work.

    I would dearly love to see how the overprotective and litigation-phobic school administrators and parents are going to handle this. Will kids be issued butt plugs so they cannot defecate while at school? Will guards be posted in each lavatory to make sure the kids come out empty handed? Will children who defecate during school time be suspended, like that wacky and out of control girl who chastely hugged her friends on a Friday? One detention for Number One and two detentions for Number Two!

    The real solution is to let the kids have access to beer and pot. We already know how that stuff works and we can share ours with them.

  • It's a hoax? Darn!

    I guess I'll just have to go back to licking toads.

  • sssssssssssssssssssssssspp

    aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh

    sssssssssssssssssssppppp

    "Wow, man.

    That's some good shit."

  • New Rule

    If you have to tell your citizens not to purposefully inhale fermented sewer gas, perhaps you should invest more in education in general.

  • Gone too far?

    The author believes that only this latest nonsense raises the question "has our national drug panic finally gone too far?" Asking that question now makes me presume that the author has been too stoned to have paid attention for the last few decades.

    When we got so obsessed with keeping relatively mild drugs like pot out of the hands of teens that many turned to "huffing" and some turned to near suffication for highs, it had gone too far. When people who receive a medical benefit from marijuana got locked up for using it, it had gone too far. When the feds started busting doctors for prescribing legal pain medication to patients slowly dying in agony, drug panic had gone too far. When the annual bill for the drug war exceeded the gross national product of some decent sized countries, only to get results like the street cost of heroine falling faster than computer prices, it had gone too far. Despite the huge obsession about drugs, with the news this week I'm more concerned about kids licking supposedly safe toys than most illicit drugs.

    Now that Ritalin is handed out to kids like tic-tacs and kids have learned to siphon off pills from the 'rents medicine cabinet or purse, I don't picture many youngsters turning to fermented crap. Plus at least according to the media, pot and alcohol are easier than ever for kids to get, nevermind adults.

    It would be great to see some reasonable drug policy in the USA, but considering that we can't even get out of a war that we never needed to start in the first place, I don't have much hope for a shift toward realistic drug policy.

  • Holy Yeast Crap!

    Seriously folks, have you ever partaken of alcohol?

    Yeast are put into a solution with sugars and they eat (or shall we say "metabolize") the sugars. They excrete alcohol. When they excrete enough alcohol where they end up dying in their own waste, the dead yeast are removed, it is bottled, sold and people drink it.

    Alcohol is yeast crap.

    Cheers!

  • Wow! psychedelic, man!

    The entire neo-con section of the Republican party (and apparently Feinstein--otherwise known as "She Who Should Be Kicked Out of Office") and their ideology now fully explained!

    It's their love of smoking the fermented feces--in action! Rolled in the papers of the Constitution, of course.

  • Stuff, not S--T that really works; AREA WOMAN,TAKE NOTE!

    Allright, so maybe this isn't the best time to write such stuff.

    I am in the Bavarian woodlands, isolated. Very sadly hashless and K:B:less.

    No connections for Kilometers and more. No miracle rainbows, no surprise finds: Garnichts! Constipated herbal reasoning reigns here south of the Danube (the opposite problem as described in the article, I suppose). Bavarian kids are all so afraid of losing their boarding school stipends or else embarasing their critical parents despite the very real "Tolerance Law": Within: §31a BtMG of the BFG 90,145 §:("Eigenbrauch geringer Mengen von Cannabisprodukten...")Practically legal here compared to the bountiful babylonian freedoms of the U.S.and A. Which is why I am pained to write this.

    I have never been so long unhigh in my long, puffin' ,tokin' hippy life but...

    AREA WOMAN! Boreal Toads DO work as a psychopharmeceudical.

    (See Terrance McKenna and others! ) Those little guys can be painlessly shared into dimensions further. Just look it up, then go find some Boreals. You won't need to harm them- they live all over the map- so long as we maintain sustainable habitat for them and for ourselves. But I digress...

    But back in 1968, upon the example of the famous Country Joe and the Fish banana convoy, I managed to intoxicate severely an entire field trip group from a nearby school by pursuading them of the efficacy of the scraped and prayed-over peels. Got a tad bit high, myself, but those believing kids! They begged me for weeks for the prayer texts and for the banana code and protocol.

    I was a 7th grade Tim Leary for a few daze.

    What you do not know might get you high.

    Let's keep those scare stories coming. It is the only way to fight back. Their drugwar is as helpful as their plans for filling the planet with automobiles and nuclear weaponry. The S--T high is a fine metaphor for home-squated subversion of a bankrupt status quo. The banana of 1968 were protests against cannabis prohibition.

    I hope they illegalize poop. Cheney, for one, hasn't had a good B.M. in his smirking life! Smoke 'em if ya got 'em,Pilgrims!