Despite what initiatives to legalize and popular culture wants you to think, it's a verified and conclusive undeniable fact that marijuana is definitely an addictive substance which can bring about both short and long-term physical and mental harm to users. Like other substances, somebody who has used marijuana for a prolonged period of time can become dependent on its effects and can experience withdrawal symptoms when they abruptly quit using marijuana. Users today have extremely high grade marijuana at their disposal which wasn't the case twenty years ago, making it a much bigger problem.

Somebody who uses marijuana often is significantly altering how the brain functions, and so the brain can't just automatically readjust to normal function when the individual ceases using marijuana, this can take some time. Individuals actually detox from marijuana, like any other drug, as the drug is eliminated from the body and the body readjusts to function without marijuana. So marijuana detox can be quite a challenge for long-term users, because users will experience withdrawal symptoms which are often hard to endure. These symptoms might not be as physical as it is with heroin withdrawal for instance, but marijuana detox and withdrawal can cause severe depression along with other psychological symptoms for chronic users. For this reason relapse is so prevalent for many who try to cease using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services are offered at drug and alcohol detox and drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in Waverly to help individuals through this process so they don't relapse and can receive further rehab services following detox.