In spite of what initiatives to legalize and today's culture would lead you to think, it's a proven and conclusive indisputable fact that marijuana is an addictive substance which can cause both acute and long-term physical and psychological harm to users. Similar to other substances, someone who has used marijuana for an extended period of time can become dependent on its effects and definately will experience withdrawal symptoms if they abruptly quit using marijuana. Individuals today have very high grade marijuana available which wasn't true 2 decades ago, which makes it a much larger problem.

Someone who uses marijuana regularly is significantly altering how the brain functions, and so the brain can't just automatically return to normal function once the person stops using marijuana, this will take some time. Individuals actually detox from marijuana, like every other drug, as the drug is eliminated from your body and the body readjusts to normal operation without marijuana. So marijuana detox can be a challenge for long-term users, because individuals will experience withdrawal symptoms which may be hard to endure. These symptoms may not be as physical in nature as heroin withdrawal for example, but marijuana detox and withdrawal can cause severe depression as well as other mental symptoms for chronic users. For this reason relapse is so common for individuals who make an attempt to quit using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services are offered at drug and alcohol detox and drug treatment centers in Bangor to help individuals through this process so that they don't relapse and can receive further rehab services following detox.