Some time ago there was a big thing here about 'skunk', which was meant to be super strong and the tabloids said it 'made people crazy'
Just wondered if it was something like that.
Back in the day (the day being sometime in the 80’s), we used to refer to any marijuana we smoked as “skunk” or “skunkweed”. Back in that same day, the marijuana that was grown around where I lived, just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was world famously known as “BC Skunk”.
Everyone has now figured out how to grow, in huge warehouses all over the world, the same kind of flavourful, potent, and
stanky marijuana that used to grow naturally in the backcountry meadows around where I’m from, and these days, I think Skunk has become a kind of trademark, meant to fool the ignorant dopehead rubes into thinking they’re getting some primo brand of narcotic. Like China White heroin, or Bolivian Flake cocaine, it’s a meaningless designation chosen by a distributor or dealer to increase the apparent quality of their product, which is generally the same crap everyone else is selling.