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A teenager cut off his own penis and stabbed his mother with a knife during a psychotic episode brought on by a potent form of cannabis called “skunk.”

The father of the teenager said the drug triggered a psychotic episode and is sharing the story in an effort to spread awareness about skunk, as it’s called in the United Kingdom. The unidentified man said his son started smoking marijuana when he was 16 but switched to skunk, a more powerful form of cannabis, out of “boredom” and soon “became paranoid,” reports The Telegraph.

The father said the drug turned his son, a rugby player, from a “bright bubbly lad” into a “waste of space.”

“He became delusional, he used to sleep with a tennis racket in his bed because he thought people were living in the walls,” his father told BBC Radio 5 Live. “I remember one instance he was telling us all about the fact that mermaids exist and it was just a whole tragic trip down a hill.”