Worse yet, there are LEGAL drugs such a Prozac and Paxil out there, which have been proven to cause violent and suicidal actions in some users...something marijuana has never been proven to do.
That's very true, I know this from personal experience, and the doctors seem to force this garbage on people if they are just having a bad day. At the same time, if you are having chronic pain issues, the very same doctors that will push potentially harmful antidepressants on you will often times ignore your suffering and tell you to take Advil or some other ineffective OTC pain medication, because the more effective pain medicines are "addictive". I'm all for someone being able to 'self medicate' as needed, because it seems the entire health care profession is clueless and too afraid of the DEA to help most folks.
That “proof” is pretty shaky. When you’re dealing with patients who are suficiently mentally ill to require medication, it’s very difficult to tease out the effect of the medication and the effect of the illness. I think part of the apparent connection is the tendency of family, friends, counselors, etc. to start letting up on watching and supervising the patient once medication has been started (He’ll be fine, he’s on medication now”), leading to a timing of medication followed by suicide/violence, that looks like a causative effect, but probably often isn’t. Proof of the pudding is that while use of these drugs has been greatly increasing in both US and Europe in recent years, the teen and young adult suicide rate has been rising in the US but dropping in Europe.