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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we can partially blame William Randolph Hurst.
Hurst was a vertically integrated newspaper publisher.
he owned pieces of the entire production cycle chopping down trees all the way to printing on paper & distribution.
he was a very rich & powerful man.
When it was proposed that we should be making paper from hemp rather than trees – hemp being deep rooted, easy to grow, replenishes fast, can make paper, rope, fabric, etc. – Hurst stood to lose lots of money if we moved away from trees.
He commissioned several studies into the harmful effects of marijuana. note, these were not honest, peer reviewed, double blind studies, they were specifically designed to show how dangerous & evil marijuana is.
once growing pot was illegal, that ruled out hemp along with it.
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