WI: Marijuana a staple of Western diets?

Now, before anybody goes crazy on me, cannabis has been consumed as a food for thousands of years, but only really in Africa and Asia, as it is quite common there. Now let's say that weed somehow spreads to Europe in the early Roman era (say, near the end of the Republic), possibly as a trading good brought by merchants from the east. After the plant establishes itself, it is adopted as food by...well, someone.

Essentially, what I'm trying to ask is what do y'all think would be the effects on Western history and culture if marijuana foods became a staple of our diets?
 
Do you mean as a common recreational drug, similar to qat throughout much of the equatorial world or tobacco through most of the world? Or do you mean as an actual food item, as in pot brownies? Because the implications are different for each.
 

DISSIDENT

Banned
Have Hearst's campaign to illegalize it defeat it and it remains a legal substance along the lines of cigarettes and special brownies become available in food markets.
 
Cannabis (not marihuana) was a regular food item in Europe. The plant was mainly grown for fibres, but its secondary purpose was always as an oilseed. This did not change until after WWII.
 
Cannabis (not marihuana) was a regular food item in Europe. The plant was mainly grown for fibres, but its secondary purpose was always as an oilseed. This did not change until after WWII.

Quite.

I recall reading a medieval recipe when I was living in Bologna that called for the stuff. And there was a strip in the city where the rooves of the ubiquitous porticoes were painted with food-plants - one had cannabis.
 
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