In spite of what efforts to legalize and today's culture wants you to think, it's a verified and conclusive fact that marijuana is definitely an addictive substance which can lead to both acute and long-term physical and mental harm to users. Much like other substances, someone who has used marijuana for a prolonged period of time can become dependent on its effects and will experience withdrawal symptoms when they initially stop using marijuana. Users today have very high grade marijuana available which wasn't true twenty years ago, which makes it an even larger problem.

Someone that uses marijuana regularly is really altering the way the brain functions, therefore the brain can't just automatically readjust to normal operation once the individual ceases using marijuana, this can 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 a challenge for habitual users, because individuals will experience withdrawal symptoms that may be hard 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 as well as other mental symptoms for chronic users. For this reason relapse is so common for many who make an attempt to quit using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services can be found at drug and alcohol detoxification and drug and alcohol treatment programs in Cooper to help individuals through this process so they don't relapse and can receive further rehabilitation services after detox.