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It was primarily the lumber industry that is responsible for marijuana being illegal. They put pressure on politicians who needed money and newspaper owners (can't print a newspaper without paper). Politicians also needed the support of the newspapers to get elected which they wouldn't get with the lumber industry pulling the strings.




William Randolph Hearst was:

(A) a politician;

(B) the biggest newspaper publisher in the country; and

(C) the owner of vast tracts of timber. His own newspapers were self-sufficient, but without hemp he could control his competitors' supply of paper as well.