U.S. Won’t Sue to Reverse States’ Legalization of Marijuana - NYTimes.com

It is hard to imagine how our governments could come up with a more complex set of laws, rules,and regulations.  This latest announcement from the Justice Department appears to add to that complexity.
U.S. Won’t Sue to Reverse States’ Legalization of Marijuana - NYTimes.com:
The simple solution, which is to lower the status of the drug on the DEA "schedule" level to a drug that could be prescribed when required.  That would protect the medical requirements, and "children"...

Sanjay Gupta backs medical marijuana, apologizes for previous views - CBS News

It appears to me that politicians always have a knee jerk reaction to consideration of medical marijuana.  Whenever serious studies are done, it seems that the results of the analysis show that medical use of marijuana doesn't have much worse side effects than other prescription drugs.  Yes, it isn't a perfect drug -- but no other drug seems perfect either.  Now Sanjay Grupta has come around according to CBS News.  Why does it take so long?
Sanjay Gupta backs medical marijuana, apologizes for previous views - CBS News:
His statement is very well written: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/

Why do so many lives have to be ruined by being arrested for using it or selling it?  Why do we have to spend so much money trying to interdict smuggling, catch growers or prosecute users?