Despite what efforts to legalize and today's culture would lead you to think, it's a verified and scientific fact that marijuana can be an addictive drug which can bring about both short and long-term physical and mental injury to users. Like other substances, someone who has used marijuana for a prolonged time period can become addicted to its effects and can experience withdrawal symptoms whenever they abruptly quit using marijuana. Users today have very high grade marijuana available which wasn't true 10-20 years ago, which makes it a much larger problem.

Someone that uses marijuana regularly is significantly altering how the brain functions, and so the brain can't just automatically readjust to normal operation once the person ceases using marijuana, this can take time. People actually detox from marijuana, like any other drug, as marijuana is eliminated from your 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 that may be difficult to endure. These symptoms may not be as physical as it is with heroin withdrawal as an example, but marijuana detox and withdrawal may cause extreme depression and other mental symptoms for long-term users. This is why relapse is so common for many who try to quit using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services can be found at drug and alcohol detox and drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in Somers to help individuals through this process so that they don't relapse and can obtain further treatment services after detoxification.