State officials may be struggling to develop a program that would allow sufferers of certain painful, chronic conditions to use marijuana under the auspices of clinical research, but it's clear that Maryland voters are way out ahead of them in their views on the drug. Just 37 percent of those surveyed in the latest Sun poll want to keep the status quo for marijuana, while 28 percent think posession should be decriminalized — that is, treated like a traffic ticket — and 30 percent think it should be legalized and taxed. That is to say, 58 percent of voters do not support putting people in jail for using the drug recreationally. It no longer appears to be a question of whether the state will relax its marijuana laws but how soon and how much. We urge some caution.