You can make regular paper out of hemp? That's why lumber industry was against marijuana?

Don't know why the lumber companies wouldn't just grow their own plants. Easier to grow than trees.

The story I remember about Dupont, it was a patented synthetic material that they were competing with against hemp. Somebody found

Anyway, no I'm not stoned right now. Don't even know why I'm talking about this.

I just looked it up on Wikipedia... Apparently we're thinking of the same story:

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The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Herer concluded DuPont played a large role in the criminalization of cannabis. In 1938, DuPont patented the processes for creating plastics from coal and oil and a new process for creating paper from wood pulp. If hemp had been largely exploited, Herer believes it would have likely been used to make paper and plastic (nylon), and may have hurt DuPont's profits.



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