I am sure I read somewhere that the DNA is ultimately owned by GW pharma. Or it can be traced to the same strains from which theirs was derived.  UK420 is the place to get those sorts of questions answered.

Very quickly it became the generic term used by dealers to describe whatever it was that the growers were adding ground glass to. Regardless of what the seed packet said there was a time when the only green you could buy was “skunk” and thus the name was was also picked up on the street by users and eventually the press to describe overpriced, underweight, stinky, high potency (hopefully), indoor, hydro grown, street quality puff.

The reefer madness group in the prohibition lobby have since instructed their right thinking mates in the press to describe it all as skunk now and to add the rider that just reading about it makes you go mad.

In general, skunk now refers to all herbal cannabis products regardless of strain or type of grow or potency or anything.  It is just a nice little sound bite.  If you were to insist on accuracy then the way the word skunk is used now is to describe more or less any hybrid strain capable of being grown for high THC in the final product.

Go on the ‘strain hunters’ website to see vids of Arjan and Franco from the Greenhouse Seed company visiting places where cannabis grows in the wild, like Africa, India, Jamaica and Morocco. Its a kind of documentary. Very interesting.

From Professor Clare Gerada: “Cannabis causes lung cancer. It causes oesophageal cancer. It causes failure at school.”.
Reply: being a professor i would of thought ud know the facts but of course you only read the proppagander….CBD & THC has been proven to fight cancer cells

From Kathy Gyngell: “Skunk causes psychosis”.
Reply: your statement is psycotic….
cannabis does not turn people crazy…..
alchol has a 2% chance of making you crazy. not cannabis

People need to know the truth about drugs
but at the end of the day, the goverment must be making billions off it being illegal, cause at the end of the day thats all the goverment care about £££££

Liquid skunk is an excellent term for it which highlights the hypocrisy of current drugs policy.

I’ve done allot of research on individual strains,and there isnt one strain of cannabis as strong as Sativex, Sativex being 27%, the highest THC content I found from seed companies are maximum 25%, and usually that’s a bit of an exaggeration.

So it would be true to say that GWP’s ‘Sativex’ is actually “Liquid Skunk”?

So to say ALL skunk is stronger than cannabis used 10 years ago is a lie, because each strain has a different THC/CBD level that allot of people ignore. If you research a few of the seed companies that produce the ‘Skunk’ we smoke today, ull see each strain varies. Yes there are certain strains up to 20% THC, but there are also strains with as little as 8 – 12% THC. CBD is usually considered and documented along with THC content. 

So its not like all there is, is this new Strong skunk, because cannabis has always varied in strength and flavor. I’ve done allot of research on individual strains,and there isnt one strain of cannabis as strong as Sativex, Sativex being 27%, the highest THC content I found from seed companies are maximum 25%, and usually that’s a bit of an exaggeration.  Instead of grouping all skunk strains together with new stronger variants, lets look and do research on the strain specific information.

I drank alcohol in my youth as well as canabis and tabacco. I now smoke pure and now know due to bieng tee total and now non tabacco smoker it was “the alcohol that has made me phsycotic in the past, not cannabis in any form.

In my opinion, cannabis may suit some people and not all and the same for alcohol, why should i have to be a criminal just because i choose and also cannabis suits me better!!!!

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmhaff/uc1774-iv/uc177401.htm

“Q264 Lorraine Fullbrook: If you legalise or decriminalise cannabis,
you are not taking away the problem. We have seen the other end,
where there is a serious organised crime issue and a narco-terrorism
issue, which ruins people’s lives; I mean murders people and causes
conflict in countries, so we are looking at the other side of this.”

Are you not getting cannabis mixed up with cocaine? The vast
majority of cannabis in Britain is grown here these days as you
know? Often there are other crimes connected to these operations;
like use of illegal immigrants, but that’s not the narco-terrorism
or war you refer to. If I bought some seeds from Holland and grew my
own plants for my own consumption where is ‘the problem’ in that?

“The problem” is the legal status of cannabis, making it extremely
expensive for a dried herb; maybe £160 for an ounce! That’s why
serious organised criminals see it as a great way to make money, the
legal status of the plant makes this viable fund raising for them,
changing the legal status of cannabis will stop this. There will
always be a large amount of people who enjoy cannabis recreationally
– all of us would rather buy cannabis from an off-licence type
outlet instead of running the risks associated with illicit trade -
can you imagine how big an industry that is? Currently in the hands
of criminals, tax exempt, profits going up the chain into the hands
of truly dangerous people.

There are a lot of problems associated with alcohol, tens of
thousands of deaths a year alone is a pretty significant problem -
would you make alcohol illegal to tackle this? It’s been done hasn’t
it, the outcome was Al Capone and moonshine, one of the most
prolific criminals of all time; and probably the worst kind of
alcohol ever made. Indoor cannabis grows make skunk; that’s where it
gets its name from; this is a similar situation to the illegal
alcohol of prohibition – the legal status of the substance made
things significantly worse. I don’t really want skunk; but it is all
I can get.

So back to your statement “If you legalise or decriminalise
cannabis, you are not taking away the problem.”

I disagree – if you legalise cannabis you are taking away a huge
problem; and creating a large legitimate taxable industry, creating
jobs and freeing up police time.

In the meantime, myself and millions of otherwise law-abiding people
will continue to use cannabis recreationally; and buy it from
friends; who buy it from other friends; who somewhere up the chain
buy it from serious organised criminals.
————

I wonder if she will read it …

“Dear ***,
Would you acknowledge that alcohol is a more harmful substance than
cannabis? For the user and for third parties?

How can cannabis possibly remain illegal when it is scientifically,
medically, sociologically, a lesser evil than alcohol?

It’s really that simple. Evidence based policy; or prejudice? 
Thanks,”

It feels like a futile argument much of the time since almost everybody in the country drinks; but I also like to suggest to these people how alcohol should be placed in the class A drug category to ‘send out the right message’. Having 3 isles of alcohol in Sainsburies as a normal part of the store; no attempt to hide the attractive packaging, no attempts to keep children away to de-normalise drinking – the hypocrisy is the ultimate wind-up.

(My solution? Bring back the off-licence, an adult only shop with no external advertising; in there you can buy anything from cigarettes to vodka; cannabis to ecstasy.)