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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Because the government decided that hemp was bad and therefore banned it in 1937. So thanks a lot government for banning a material that can produce with 1 acre what it takes 4-10 acres of trees to produce.

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