Thanks for your post, very informative and I believe enough is yet to be said about hemp. Despite current positive progress I will make my comment below without holding back.

I'm not sure whether its really for your safety for the following reasons:
Safety, by definition...refers to protection from an existing harm or a potential harm. Many materials, natural and artificial, have been discovered and they are all free to use except for the best of them,why? What harm or potential danger is there with hemp? If I am correctly informed it's not you who is being protected but those enforcing the law protecting themselves and their business interests. Who today doesnt know that there is a difference between hemp, which is not narcotic and marijuana which is a narcotic given the later's higher percentage of THC?

Perhaps the DEA isn't good for you Americans and you should find ways to protect yourself from it. How many people have suffered enough because a natural commodity is being held back by a group of people who don't have the people's best best interests at heart? Why cant you plant a seed, let it grow and build your house with it? Make safe biodegradable plastic with it? Bring homeostasis to your body through its seeds? If the DEA really cared for your safety, why does it allow the smoking of tobbaco? How many houses have fataly burned down to ashes when hemp could have saved the day because of it's fireproof adaptability? How many babies, today, have itchy rushes caused by bacteria that a hemp based diaper could have prevented? Why are we even forced to wear cotton when 25% of the world's pesticides go towards growing this highly inefficient textile when hemp could have provided us with breathable clothes that lasts generations and never loose shape? I dont know what good job the DEA does for American people but im yet to be convinced of it's effectiveness...at best, as an outsider, the DEA has simply helped to fill up the jails over individual choices that do not infringe on any other person's rights.

I live in a developing country, Zimbabwe, that has litereally copied and pasted the law from other countries without taking considering people real rights to chosing how they want to live life. Maybe you are good over there? Maybe you got affordable houses to live in, maybe you all have affordable healthy food on your tables everyday, maybe the pollution does some good at giving you healthy babies and thwating cancer and other man made chronic illnesses. Maybe you don't need CBD and THC despite your bodies having an endocannabinoid system, nodes you are naturally born with which are natural receptors for what hemp contains. Maybe, the industries they are protecting are all good for you and you eat a piece of that cake. Just maybe, we all have little freedom to be truelly ourselves and to benefit from the planet's natural endowments. Here, we are in desperate need for hemp and all is 25 000 uses!