Totally wrong!, the strength of cannabis hasnt changed for thousands of years... its still the same plant. Skunk is just one of a huge number of strains of cannabis plants, its pretty much the same as all the rest, although some types will have slightly more/less THC than others. It seems that the media have focused on skunk for a combination of the wrong reasons, all of them being rumors. The thc content of normal cannabis was assessed at 5% by the goverment..this is totally wrong..it is usually between 10-15%, 5% would be very hard to get high off. If they base their studies on shitty contaminated weed its not exactly valid. The same goes with cannabis in general I think, I've got no idea how Gordon Brown could be allowed to totally defy the facts (being that cannabis isn't actually that harmful) which the misuse of drugs council provided. The only argument for its reclassification was that it can be a step which leads to hard drugs, which is plain shit. In holland where it is near enough legal, there is a lesser percentage of people that smoke it when compared with Great Britain where it is illegal, so giving it an even more prolific status isnt going to decrease its use. Positive reiforcement is a far more effective way of making people learn things than through punishment. Cannabis has been found only to be mentally harmful in people that have schitzophrenia, its contaminated cannabis is the problem really, with dealers/suppliers filling the bud with crap WILL make people ill I think the 5 million cannabis users in Britain should have a right to do as they please, I don't see any decent reasons for it not to be legal. I smoke a fair bit and I don't feel that its affected me negativley.. just makes your day slightly better. Prisons don't need overcrowding even more with people that have the odd spliff next to rapists and such, the effects of drinking have gotta be worse than smoking. fact based rant over