Kizzy why do you keep mentioning skunk? do you have experience of this strain of cannabis or are you going by what you have read in the papers about it?
There are numerous strains that have high levels of THC, but then anything above roughly 12% is regarded as high and for each different strain you get they all affect users slightly different, you also get different effects again depending on which plant was used in the first place.
A lot of the anti legalisation prejudice today is based on the same claims some here are using about THC levels and the weed being more potent than that of a few decades ago, which is just complete garbage tbh.
Years ago the argument was 'Ohh cannabis is a gateway drug' hahah
Here in the UK most people that say they are smoking skunk aren't btw, they are just using it as a word to describe whatever type of generic weed they have.