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December 11, 2009
Study indicates skunk may pose higher risk of psychosis than regular cannabis.
BBC News (12/1) reports that, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, "people who smoke potent skunk are more at risk of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia than those who simply use cannabis."
After screening "280 patients admitted to their hospital with psychotic symptoms for the first time," 80 percent of whom "were heavy skunk users," researchers from the UK's Institute of Psychiatry discovered that "regular users double their risk of psychosis, but heavy skunk users increase theirs seven-fold." The authors theorized that "skunk's composition...contains more" THC, which "has been shown to produce psychotic symptoms like hallucinations and delusions in experiments."
Related Links:
- Skunk 'bigger psychosis risk' than other cannabis types," Michelle Roberts, BBC News, December 1, 2009.
Posted by admin at December 11, 2009 01:50 AM