A study of 300 people found that those who suffered an episode of psychosis were 18 times more likely to have used skunk rather than other users of cannabis.
Dr Maria Di Forte of the Institute of Psychiatry, London, conducted the study. She comments: "We should take a cannabis history in a more detailed way like we do when we take a history of cigarette smoking to establish risk of lung cancer. But it would be naive to say that smoking a joint is safe as we do not have enough data to reach such conclusion."
Skunk is three times stronger than other types of cannabis. Other research points to the possibility of a link between schizophrenia and cannabis use.
The BBC News piece (2 July 2008) quotes Richard Colwill from SANE, the mental health charity: "We have daily evidence that it can trigger frightening psychotic episodes, relapse, and in some cases a life-long mental condition such as schizophrenia."
Wednesday 2 July 2008
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