Changing the Controlled Substance Act Scheduling or even de-criminalizing steroids are ideas with a lot of merit, but will never happen. As Rick Collins can tell you, the DEA, FDA, and AMA all argued against Scheduling steroids as Category III (drugs with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence) when the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990 was being debated, but politicians on both sides of the aisle, Democrat and Republican, had too much political opportunity to play to the ignorant masses and grandstand against the "cheaters" in sports who were supposedly destroying their bodies with AAS. The same thing happened again when the steroids in baseball scandal hit, and in 2004 George W. Bush actually put it in his State of the Union address and made it a priority of his administration, along with Democrats like Henry Waxman and Joe Biden, and Republicans like John McCain, to save the integrity of the national pastime and the health of America's youth from the menace of anabolic steroids.
The American people ate it up and gave full support to the Scheduling, because the average American has no appreciation for the real-world benefits (and drawbacks) of anabolic steroids. Most average people hardly bat an eye at Americans who drink a six-pack of beer or smoke a couple packs of cigarettes per day, or who live off fast food and soda...but mention steroids to them, and they are positive that those dangerous steroids will kill you. That kind of cognitive dissonance, and failure to distinguish real-life degrees of possible harm from different substances, are hard to overcome, and there is certainly no great groundswell of popular opinion to de-criminalize steroids now. People understand de-criminalizing marijuana because most of them have smoked pot and realize it is not that bad; most people have never taken steroids and so they have no appreciation for the fact that although taking steroids has significant risks, there are also a lot of benefits to be had from responsible use, not abuse.
In a perfect world, it would be nice to see things go back to how they were in the 1980's, before steroids were Schedule III, and someone could go to their doctor to be put on a relatively modest and responsible cycle of test, Deca, Anadrol, Dbol, or Anavar. But this is not a perfect world, and we are sadly never going back to those less-complicated times again. It is what it is.