Despite what efforts to legalize and popular culture wants you to think, it's a proven and scientific indisputable fact that marijuana is an addictive substance which may bring about both short and long-term physical and mental harm to users. Like other substances, a person who has used marijuana for a prolonged period of time can become hooked on its effects and definately will encounter withdrawal symptoms when they initially quit using marijuana. Individuals today have extremely high grade marijuana available which wasn't the case twenty years ago, making it a much larger problem.

Someone that uses marijuana on a regular basis is really altering how the brain functions, so the brain can't just instantly return to normal function once the individual stops using marijuana, this could take some time. Individuals actually detox from marijuana, like any other drug, as the drug is eliminated from your body and the body readjusts to function without marijuana. So marijuana detox could be a challenge for long-term users, because individuals will encounter withdrawal symptoms which may be hard to endure. These symptoms may not be as physical as it is with heroin withdrawal for instance, but marijuana detox and withdrawal could cause extreme depression along with other mental symptoms for long-term users. That is why relapse is so prevalent for individuals who try and stop using marijuana by themselves. Marijuana detox services are offered at alcohol and drug detoxification and drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Socorro to help individuals through this process so that they don't relapse and can receive further rehab services following detox.