Despite what efforts to legalize and popular culture would lead you to think, it is a verified and conclusive proven fact that marijuana can be an addictive drug which may bring about both short and long-term physical and mental injury to users. Much like other drugs, someone who has used marijuana for a prolonged time period will become addicted to its effects and may experience withdrawal symptoms whenever they initially stop 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 who uses marijuana on a regular basis is significantly altering the way the brain functions, so the brain can't just automatically readjust to normal function once the person ceases using marijuana, this could take some time. People actually detox from marijuana, like any other drug, as marijuana is eliminated from the body and the body readjusts to function without marijuana. So marijuana detox could be a challenge for long-term 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 can cause severe depression as well as other psychological symptoms for chronic users. For this reason relapse is so common for individuals who attempt to cease using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services are offered at alcohol and drug detoxification and drug and alcohol treatment centers in Kings Mountain to help people through this process so they don't relapse and can obtain further treatment services after detoxification.