The FDA is a crooked agency. Like other fed agencies it is not about serving citizens but about personal enrichment, data acquisition, extortion and social manipulation. Scott Gottlieb MD seems about the typical of mediocre leadership of a third tier agency in the pretend to be in the "healthcare" business.
If you could get a leader into that job the first order of business would not be oooking about a pseudo problem it would be exposing the criminal extortionate past of the FDA, and then dissolving the agency.
"No proven medical use," is very FDA remark though meaningless it sounds relevant an authoritative to the Gawker writer reading the press releases. Third tier agencies vomit a steady stream of press releases all tending to support the essential and important nature of their work.
Of it were not for FDA we would not have fentanyl lollipops or sublingual spray, approved and proven effective not by FDA.