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It is as Helmut writes. Cannabis is a bad candidate.
If you want to go through with it and be on the safe side, work with (Sempervivum tectorum) houseleek. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. belongs to the classical medicinal herbs and fulfils all the requirements for the VM criteria.


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Plant You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is one of the more contested IDs. We have a thread on it and there were numerous opinions, no consensus. I don't think this one can be used as a test case.

House leek shows up in medieval herbals approximately as often as Cannabis, but like "hemp" there are often two versions. One is sempervivum (the one we know by this name) and one is pennywort (which grows in the same way but is a different plant). Just as "hemp" is sometimes Cannabis and sometimes one of the other fibre-plants with finger leaves (like the species of mallow that looks like Cannabis).


One of the Cannabis references that might be of interest is in Historia plantarum. It is a pretty good drawing, it's labeled Canap domestica and there's a fairly long description.