Hemp is just generally more efficient for things that wood does. You can make boards out of hemp that are stronger than wood. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper and that ugly bitch is still around?
It takes wood 50 to 500 years before it’s viable for use as a material for paper, while hemp is only a few hundred days. Hemp paper can also be recycled three times more than wood pulp. You can produce 10 tons of hemp per acre in four months. It’s so much more efficient than wood.
The logging industry spent a shitload of money on demonizing hemp by associating it with marijuana and then associating marijuana with “undesirables”. If anybody ever tells you capitalism promotes efficiency and survival of the fittest they’re full of shit for this exact reason. The logging industry killed hemp exactly because it was more efficient and would have thrived.