Eli5 why we use trees to produce paper.

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Everybody uses paper. Why are we waiting for trees to grow only to cut them down to produce paper? It takes an incredible amount of time for a tree to grow, whereas other plants grow faster, why not use those plants

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Hemp much is better for paper but DuPont got a patent to make it out of trees (required petrochemicals so it can be patented) and then lobbied congress to make marijuana (hemp) illegal. This is one of the main reasons marijuana became illegal.

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