In spite of what initiatives to legalize and popular culture would lead you to believe, it is a verified and conclusive proven fact that marijuana is an addictive drug which can bring about both acute and long-term physical and mental injury to users. Much like other substances, someone who has used marijuana for an extended time period will become dependent on its effects and can encounter withdrawal symptoms when they abruptly quit using marijuana. Users today have extremely high grade marijuana available which wasn't the situation 2 decades ago, making it a much larger problem.

Someone who uses marijuana regularly is really altering how the brain functions, and so the brain can't just automatically return to normal function as soon as the individual ceases using marijuana, this may take some time. People actually detox from marijuana, like every other drug, as the drug is eliminated from the 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 which can be hard to endure. These symptoms might 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. For this reason relapse is so common for individuals who try and stop using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services can be obtained at drug detoxification and drug and alcohol rehab centers in Elmhurst to help people through this process so that they don't relapse and may receive further rehabilitation services following detox.