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Skunk smokers 18 times more likely to be psychotic

People who use super-strength skunk cannabis are 18 times more likely to suffer a psychotic episode than those who smoke milder forms of the drug, research has shown.
New research has shown that smoking high strength skunk or smoking cannabis for many years greatly increases the risk of psychosis.
The most detailed study yet comparing the smoking habits of people with psychosis to those of people without the condition suggests that the drug is directly linked to the development of mental illness.
A study carried out at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London found that people who had a psychotic episode were twice as likely to have used cannabis for more than six years, three times more likely to have used it every day and 18 times more likely to use skunk.

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