I think depression was marijuana's first medicinal use.

It has been used as an anti-depressant for thousands of years.

Marijuana is the only reactive anti-depressant, unlike the proactive pharmaceuticals.

If all medical marijuana states recognized depression as a treatable condition with marijuana, depression would be the most common use of medical marijuana, as even the chemo, AIDS, and all others experience some depression and suicidal thoughts from time to time.

Depression is more often than not an unpreventable disease, unlike AIDS. It is a symptom of many diagnoses, including major depression (and its sub categories like major depression with psychotic features), bipolar, and schizoaffective disorder.

Law makers (and even reformers) have been ignoring the mentally ill in regards to medical marijuana.

Without medical marijuana there's always electroconvulsive therapy, which has been proven to cause permanent memory loss and cognitive deficits.

Marijuana is culture. Prohibition is bigotry against that culture.

Marijuana's appetite stimulation helps some depressive types.

The Gateway Theory is so lame it needs a wheelchair to get around on. It is also very old. I think it is due for retirement.