This is in contrast with the research showing that daily use of cannabis that is high in THC and lacking in CBD, such as skunk, increases the risk of developing psychotic disorders fivefold. Our study emphasises the importance of developing public education campaigns on the different types of street cannabis and their potential hazards. Public education is our most powerful tool in primary prevention, as tobacco-harm awareness campaigns have proven.
Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. It also, crucially, significantly lessens both the incidence of psychosis when people consume it alongside THC, and seems to make cannabis less dependence forming. Whereas other forms of weed often contain the two substances in more equal ratios, skunk tends to contain solely high amounts of THC and hardly any CBD. The teenagers Volteface interviewed were aware of the distinction between weed and skunk and the difference in their potential harmfulness, but the sheer ease of availability of the latter meant they were continuing to smoke it.
Convenience trumps effort. No increased risk of psychosis was found for those regularly smoking other forms of cannabis. The causality between cannabis use and psychosis has been questioned though, with the possibility that those more likely to take the drug are also more prone to psychosis in the first place.
Long-term effects. Some said they could feel cannabis having a negative effect on their physical health, with their ability to run and play sports affected. For most of the young cannabis users interviewed in London, their parents were not concerned enough to stop them smoking it, although they did try to advise their children against consuming stronger strains.
The environment in which they are operating, particularly in urban areas such as London, mean teenagers are regularly smoking a highly potent strain of a drug, which can result in severe mental health problems in later life, even though much less harmful strains are available.
They only know the dealers they know, many of whom will have targeted them specifically. When something is so easy, the incentive to look elsewhere and acquire knowledge about other options diminishes. We are also creatures of habit — the behaviours we become accustomed are difficult to shift.
Particularly if any adverse effects of these behaviours fail to manifest themselves in the here and now. MS patients prescribed Sativex, who resupply it to other people, also face prosecution. Another licensed treatment is Nabilone. It contains an artificial version of THC and can be given to cancer patients to help relieve nausea during chemotherapy. Cannabis oil is a type of medical cannabis that has made the headlines most recently in the UK because of the case of Alfie Dingley , a young boy with severe epilepsy who can suffer up to 30 violent seizures a day.
His mother, Hannah Deacon, has been fighting for the courts to allow her son, who is six, to get the treatment in Britain. Psychosis 'link' to potent cannabis. The science of high-potency cannabis - BBC Newsbeat. Image source, Getty Images. Types of cannabis. How risky is skunk? What did the study find? Cannabis and the law. What about medicinal cannabis?
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