In spite of what efforts to legalize and popular culture wants you to believe, it is a verified and scientific fact that marijuana is an addictive substance which can bring about both short and long-term physical and mental injury to users. Like other substances, someone who has used marijuana for an extended period of time will become dependent on its effects and will experience withdrawal symptoms when they initially stop using marijuana. Individuals today have extremely high grade marijuana at their disposal which wasn't the situation twenty years ago, making it a much larger problem.

Someone who uses marijuana regularly is significantly changing how the brain functions, and so the brain can't just automatically return to normal operation once the person ceases using marijuana, this can take time. People actually detox from marijuana, like every other drug, as the drug is eliminated from the body and the body readjusts to normal operation without marijuana. So marijuana detox can be a challenge for long-term users, because individuals will encounter withdrawal symptoms which may be hard to endure. These symptoms might not be as physical as it is with heroin withdrawal as an example, but marijuana detox and withdrawal could cause extreme depression and other mental symptoms for chronic users. This is why relapse is so prevalent for individuals who make an attempt to quit using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services can be found at drug and alcohol detoxification and drug and alcohol rehab centers in Fort Recovery to help people through this process so that they don't relapse and can obtain further rehabilitation services after detox.