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No need to oppose it if people are too scared / poor to try it. I also imagine there are better crops than hemp for paper. Lignocellulose (the type of plant matter used to make paper) typically makes up about the vast majority of the total dry matter in most plants. There are probably many other plants that produce the raw material more efficiently on a land and water basis with much less risk of getting outlawed.
I would bet that the processing is actually the much tougher problem to deal with than the growing of the plants as machinery is in general more expensive than plants and land.
It might even be cheaper to produce less plant matter on more lower quality ground than to use less land that is more ideal for growing. But I suspect it is just complacency on the part of the growers and / or paper pulp processors.