Smoking skunk cannabis triples risk of serious psychotic episode, says research
Source: The Guardian
Hannah Devlin, science correspondent
Monday 16 February 2015 11.42 GMT
Smoking powerful skunk cannabis triples the risk of suffering a serious psychotic episode, scientists have found.
In the population studied by the researchers in South London, where cannabis use is widespread, the drug is linked to one quarter of all new cases of psychosis, the team found.
The findings add to a compelling body of evidence that smoking strong cannabis “tilts the odds” towards a person developing psychosis, which leads to schizophrenia in about half of cases.
The study found that those who smoked skunk every day had five times the normal risk of experiencing extended episodes in which they heard voices, suffered delusions or demonstrated erratic behaviour.
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The lies, the oppression?
Not buyin' it. 
"Sir Robin Murray, professor of psychiatric research at King’s College London, said there was now clear evidence for a causal link between smoking strong cannabis and the risk of mental illness."
What a silly study. Apparently Sir Robin's been smoking a bit of the skunk weed himself. 
aliens in her shower. She called me over to see if I could see them and to ask them to leave. There were 3 of them, 2 male and one female (according to her).
She is an active alcoholic and had not been drinking for 18 hours or more. So she was in withdrawals. She smoked an indica hybrid ("aka skunk", or "chronic"
and then had a long period of hallucinations. Very vivid.
Some of the episode was DT stuff but the chronic really took it all to a whole other level.
