Start with scary headline in British newspaper:

Cannabis ‘can cause psychosis in healthy people’

Add definitive subtitle hammering home the legitimacy of the scary headline:

A potent form of cannabis can cause healthy people to develop psychotic illnesses, a new British study has proved.

Proved, you hear?  Proved!  All right, now deliver the lede that tells us marijuana smokers how we’re destined for the mental ward:

The results appear to confirm a link between psychosis and skunk cannabis, which now accounts for 80 per cent of street seizures of the drug.

Add some related bullet points to raise the reefer madness levels to eleven:

• Skunk smokers 18 times more likely to be psychotic
• One spliff can mean lifelong mental illness
• Mental health charity calls for cannabis study

Don’t worry, by this time few people will notice this little devil in the details:

Scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry in King’s College London made the discovery after running tests on 22 healthy men, aged in their late 20s.  They injected them with THC – a major component of skunk cannabis which has been blamed for increasing psychosis among heavy users.

Whoa, hold on!  You injected people with straight THC and you’re using that to prove cannabis use can cause psychosis in healthy people?!?  I could have saved you the research.  Straight THC is highly psychoactive and without other cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavinoids found in herbal cannabis, delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol metabolizes in the blood into another form of THC that is even more psychoactive!

Oddly enough, while the British worry about this deadly psychotic skunk weed that has risen to (gasp!) 14% THC, their Dutch neighbors won’t even approve of medical marijuana unless it is between 13%-18% THC.  Here in America, we approve of a 100% THC, no-other-cannabinoid pill called dronabinol (Marinol) which I will tell you from experience will cause a more profound negative psychological reaction than even the finest 60% THC hash I’ve encountered.

Even the researchers cautioned against making the “Skunk causes psychosis” claim, which, of course, the UK media is required to bury around paragraph eleven:

Dr Morrison said the findings offered “additional evidence that can elicit temporary psychotic-like effects in some people”, but stopped short of suggesting they proved a direct link between psychosis and THC.

He said: “Much more research is needed to clarify if skunk is actually more harmful than traditional cannabis.” More work needed to be carried out on the beneficial effects of CBD in balancing the damaging results of THC.

British reefer madness – just like American reefer madness, except bobbies bust into your flat to arrest you for skunk cannabis, instead of cops busting into your apartment to arrest you for kind marijuana.