Time to re-focus

Yet another blow to the effort to legalize medical marijuana.
The War on Drugs is an utter failure, particularly in respect to pot.
This seems to me to be a bi-partisan issue, yet somehow we haven't been able to do anything about the obscene amounts of money spent on a failing enterprise.
Many bloggers, both right and left have commented about this.
In a time when we are cutting funds from everything including healthcare and the military, can't we start by stemming the loss of blood from this obsolete program?