[jnovek]

Cannabis derived treatments do seem promising... someday.

Imagine that marijuana is (at a minimum) federally rescheduled to schedule 2 in the US. How long will it take to research canniboid-based painkillers once drug companies can legally do so? How pong for FDA approval?

It will be a long time until there is an alternative that is taken seriously by anyone other than the most progressive physicians in the realm of cannabis, unfortunately.

[penagwin]

I agree with this. I'm personally rather upset that it's schedule 1, meaning it has no medical benefit whatsoever, which is clearly BS and it makes it hard to research.