Why weed is illegal

Weed illegal because William Randolf Hearst and Pierre depot had a lot of money invested in paper petrochemicals and they didn't like the competition from safer and cheaper hemp products so Hearst spent the next 20 years demonizing cannabis in his newspapers in an effort to manipulate public policy against the plant ultimately tricking the United States Congress into passing anti-marijuana legislation despite The staunch protest of every major medical group in the Country!