You see this is the position of the democrat party DEA agents. Drugs cause health problems, and they are going to save us from the health problems of drugs, even if it means a massive surge in violent crime, the rise of mini-state violent drug cartels, an epidemic of HIV due to lack of needle exchanges, tens of thousands of preventable overdose deaths, total lack of regulation, drugs that were cooked up in crack head toilets being sold at schools and an entire generation of people raised in prisons and perpetually involved with the justice system. If they save even one person from getting a lung infection after smoking marijuana, it is a huge success. It could be compared to dropping an atom bomb on a bank in a major city in order to stop a bank robbery. They will say "It was a success!" as long as the bank robbery was terminated due to the evaporation of the bank robbers. To a casual observer this makes them look like they must be clinically insane, but once you realize they are really in the business of making Atom bombs (republicans) and disaster clean up (democrats), it starts to make a lot more sense what is going on.