When marijuana was first outlawed it was not because of the harmful effects. The effects of marijuana were not known until recently. Marijuana originally became illegal because of the paper industry. Nearly 90% of the world’s paper before 1883 was made entirely from hemp based fiber. In the early 1930’s the U.S. department of agriculture wanted to make all of its paper from hemp based fiber. However the project was put on hold until someone could find a cheaper and more effective way of separating the hemp fiber from the pulp. During this time Dupont Chemicals and Hearst Paper and Timber and a number of other large companies developed a way to make paper out of trees. In 1936 shortly after tree paper manufacturing had started a machi

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