People who smoke skunk, the extra strong cannabis grown in hothouse conditions, are 18 times more likely to develop psychosis that those who take the milder forms such as hash (cannabis resin), a new study has found. The study, which was carried out at the Institute of Psychiatry and presented this week to delegates at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, looked at the links between cannabis use of psychosis.

It is impossible to deny the incredible significance of the internet and the effects its development has had on the world. Today the internet touches nearly every aspect of our daily lives; we shop online, we keep in touch through email, banking and credit can be taken care of through one click of a mouse, news from all over the world blinks up at us from the screen every time we log on, and communities of people from all over the planet are connected.

Medical-marijuana patients would be allowed to possess up to 24 ounces of harvested marijuana, six mature plants and 18 immature plants under draft rules announced by the state Department of health.

Raising the legal drinking age to 21 resulted in an 11-percent decrease in the number of drunk teenagers involved in fatal car crashes, according to new research from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE).

Menthol should be banned along with other cigarette flavorings as part of legislation to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, the Congressional Black Caucus says.

Health Canada has echoed a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning about suicide and depression linked to a leading stop-smoking drug.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Journal of General Internal Medicine

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Journal of General Internal Medicine