Could it be?

Nope, actually it was a multi-purpose conspiracy which also was intended to weaken
some militaries power, because the fibers of hemp were used to produce ropes and clothes for military.
Beside this, industrials feared about losses in their turn overs due to the fact,
paper made from wood needs wood and more chemicals to get produced in compare to paper made from hemp.
Paper made from hemp is factually better than paper made from wood.
Same is valid for fabrics made out of cotton and the cotton agriculture was a huge economic field.
You can read the whole story, if you search for Jack Herers Book and read Chapter 4.
If they didn't changed it, it's available online.

So ur saying pharma had nothing to do with it?

No that's not what i wrote.
I wrote the intentions/reasons were different.
Hemp didn't made a big market share in the pharma industries in compare to the other mentioned economical factors.
Truth is, one of the involved companies also produces pharmaceutical products.

But read by yourself. Just google for the mentioned Book,
it is interesting and stuffed with facts and studies and other informations.

Cool ty for the link....I only use DDG...google lies :o/

No problem.
You can use whatever search engine you want to.
I am still a bit sad about the loss of altavista and hotbot. lol

I have the translated and printed on hemp paper version. :-)

https://jackherer.com/emperor-3/chapter-4/

Fine. Go eat your friends. It will be fun.