Despite what initiatives to legalize and popular culture wants you to believe, it's a proven and scientific proven fact that marijuana can be an addictive drug which may cause both short and long-term physical and psychological injury to users. Like other drugs, a person who has used marijuana for a prolonged time period will become dependent on its effects and can encounter withdrawal symptoms when they abruptly stop using marijuana. Individuals today have extremely high grade marijuana at their disposal which wasn't true twenty years ago, making it a much larger problem.

Someone who uses marijuana often is significantly changing the way the brain functions, so the brain can't just instantly return to normal function as soon as the person stops using marijuana, this may take some time. People actually detox from marijuana, like every other drug, as marijuana is eliminated from your body and the body readjusts to function without marijuana. So marijuana detox can be quite a challenge for long-term users, because individuals will experience withdrawal symptoms which can be hard to endure. These symptoms may not be as physical as it is with heroin withdrawal for example, but marijuana detox and withdrawal may cause severe depression along with other psychological symptoms for long-term users. For this reason relapse is so common for individuals who try and stop using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services are offered at drug and alcohol detox and alcohol and drug rehabilitation facilities in Ellsworth to help individuals through this process so they don't relapse and can obtain further treatment services following detox.