Despite what efforts to legalize and today's culture would lead you to think, it is a verified and conclusive proven fact that marijuana is an addictive substance that may cause both acute and long-term physical and psychological injury to users. Like other substances, someone who has used marijuana for a prolonged period of time will become dependent on its effects and definately will experience withdrawal symptoms when they abruptly stop using marijuana. Users today have extremely high grade marijuana available which wasn't the case twenty years ago, which makes it a much bigger issue.

Somebody that uses marijuana regularly is significantly altering how the brain functions, hence the brain can't just automatically readjust to normal operation when the person stops using marijuana, this may take some time. People actually detox from marijuana, like every other drug, as marijuana is eliminated from the body and the body readjusts to normal operation without marijuana. So marijuana detox can be quite a challenge for long-term users, because users will experience withdrawal symptoms which may be tough to endure. These symptoms may not be as physical in nature as heroin withdrawal for example, but marijuana detox and withdrawal can cause extreme depression along with other psychological symptoms for chronic users. For this reason relapse is so common for many who attempt to stop using marijuana by themselves. Marijuana detox services are offered at drug detox and alcohol and drug treatment centers in Gagetown to help people through this process so that they don't relapse and may receive further treatment services after detox.