This was a great read and is encouraging news for all of us on the medical use front! Exciting to see the ONDCP Deputy Director admit that there are needs for cannabis-based medicines in the USA! Now if only someone would convince him that it's NIDA and the DEA colluding to suppress not just research, but research supporting the rescheduling of marijuana, we'd be set to have a legal cannabis industry in America of non-smoked consumables and other medication.

Excerpted from: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100311/Non-smoked-medical-cannabis-pr...

Comments by President Obama's Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Tom McClellan, in yesterday's USA TODAY pinpoints the need for non-smoked medical cannabis products similar to those currently being developed for FDA clinical trials by Cannabis Science.

Deputy Director McClellan said in the article that Obama administration still opposes smoking marijuana for its medicinal benefit. As well, he says more research is needed to deliver the medically useful ingredients in a non-smoked form. He then went on to say, "We have the safest medications in the world and it's not a coincidence. We have an enviable process by which we approve medications, and that's through the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)."

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"It is important that the Obama Administration is making such an open call that they want more FDA clinical trial research on the same types of drugs we are creating. Consequently, we will rapidly proceed with our development of a cannabis-based medicine for PTSD for FDA clinical trials. We hope they will share our sense of urgency, because PTSD is killing not only our veterans, but also our active duty troops. In January alone, more of our active US military troops died of suicide than were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined."