Robin Prosser was a medical marijuana patient who committed suicide after the DEA interfered with her marijuana supply that her state said was legal. Before she took her life she wrote the following.

This wasn't her first suicide attempt. She suffered from an immunosuppressive disorder and tremendous pain. She knew depression. This is how I connect with her, not just because of marijuana. I don't want to kill myself, but the suicidal thoughts haunt me. Marijuana helps with that in a way other medicines can't. I can't smoke marijuana because I can't afford the cost nor the penalties if I get caught with it.

If she had been left alone the marijuana would have worked on her pain and depression. The DEA said they were protecting people from their state's laws. But in the end who protected Robin from the most serious danger to a depressed person? Who was there to work with her and her depression? If you say you protected Robin from her state's laws, you did so oblivious to the fact that she was a real danger to herself. You did so oblivious to the fact that marijuana is really medicinal. You did so oblivious to the distinction between use and abuse. You criminalize the sick when they ask for relief, and leave them to suffer for far longer than they would otherwise. Prevention for suicide is weak because suicide is easy to perform. Prevention has to be proactive rather than reactive in most cases. Giving the woman her medicinal herb is a start in helping her help herself and is one of the very proactive measures government should be utilizing to fight nationwide suicide rates.

She may have been depressed, but she wasn't delusional. Marijuana helped - nobody human would deny that.