In spite of what efforts to legalize and today's culture would lead you to believe, it's a verified and scientific fact that marijuana is an addictive drug which may bring about both acute and long-term physical and psychological harm to users. Like other substances, someone who has used marijuana for a prolonged period of time will become addicted to its effects and definately will experience withdrawal symptoms when they abruptly stop using marijuana. Users today have very high grade marijuana available which wasn't the situation twenty years ago, making it an even larger problem.

Someone who uses marijuana on a regular basis is significantly changing the way the brain functions, and so the brain can't just automatically readjust to normal operation when the individual stops using marijuana, this may take some time. People actually detox from marijuana, like every other drug, as marijuana is eliminated from your body and the body readjusts to function without marijuana. So marijuana detox can be quite a challenge for long-term users, because users will experience withdrawal symptoms which may be challenging 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 severe depression as well as other mental symptoms for long-term users. For this reason relapse is really common for those who attempt to quit using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services can be found at alcohol and drug detoxification and drug and alcohol treatment programs in Las Vegas to help people through this process so that they don't relapse and can obtain further treatment services following detoxification.