Despite what initiatives to legalize and popular culture wants you to believe, it's a proven and scientific fact that marijuana is an addictive drug which can lead to both short and long-term physical and mental injury to users. Like other drugs, someone who has used marijuana for a prolonged time period will become addicted to its effects and may experience withdrawal symptoms if they abruptly quit using marijuana. Individuals today have very high grade marijuana available which wasn't the situation 10-20 years ago, which makes it a much larger problem.

Someone who uses marijuana frequently is significantly altering how the brain functions, therefore the brain can't just automatically return to normal function once the individual ceases using marijuana, this will take some time. Individuals 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 a challenge for habitual users, because individuals will experience withdrawal symptoms which are often 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 extreme depression along with other mental symptoms for long-term users. For this reason relapse is so common for individuals who attempt to stop using marijuana by themselves. Marijuana detox solutions are available at drug and alcohol detoxification and drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in Malta to help people through this process so that they don't relapse and may receive further treatment services after detox.