In spite of what initiatives to legalize and popular culture wants you to think, it's a proven and scientific indisputable fact that marijuana is an addictive drug that may cause both short and long-term physical and mental harm to users. Similar to other substances, a person who has used marijuana for an extended time period can become hooked on its effects and can experience withdrawal symptoms if they abruptly stop using marijuana. Users today have very high grade marijuana at their disposal which wasn't true twenty years ago, making it a much larger problem.

Someone that uses marijuana often is significantly changing the way the brain functions, so the brain can't just automatically readjust to normal function when the person ceases 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 is usually a challenge for habitual users, because users will encounter withdrawal symptoms that may be hard to endure. These symptoms might not be as physical in nature as heroin withdrawal for instance, but marijuana detox and withdrawal may cause severe depression and other mental symptoms for chronic users. This is the reason relapse is so prevalent for many who attempt to stop using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services can be found at drug and alcohol detoxification and alcohol and drug treatment facilities in Hamburg to help people through this process so that they don't relapse and can receive further treatment services following detoxification.