Today, as reported by the AP and carried live on the C-Span network, when Associate Justice Scalia testified before a Senate committee he stated there are too many judges because Congress has made too many Federal crimes out of too many routine drug cases.

Too true! Many of the drug cases prosecuted in Federal Courts (across the nation) these days should be prosecuted in State court or not prosecuted at all. There was a time when the standard for bringing a federal drug case involved multiple kilos of whatever controlled substance was seized. Now, it seems as though medical marijuana providers are being prosecuted in federal court because of a state's constitutional provisions for legal use of medical marijuana. In this multicultural, multidimensional society one size does not fit all. If the citizen's of a state have decided among themselves to pass a constitutional provision which allows for the medicinal use of marijuana, that should end the matter. Congress should not try an override the State's decision. Either there is too much government interfering in the private lives of citizens or there isn't. The lawmakers cannot have it both ways. (These comments were mine and not Justice Scalia's).