At its 23rd meeting on 27 August 2025, the Government of the Cannabis Embassy adopted the official flag
The shades of green represent the sociocultural and biological diversity that characterises Cannabis sativa L. (a plant known under many synonyms: hemp, marijuana, pot, weed, also known as pakalolo, भांग, dagga, গাঁজা, konopi, 麻, ntsangu, коноплі, haschisch, riamba, قنب, siddhi, kif, cáñamo, mambe, 大麻, chanvre, maconha, 대마초, mota, κάνναβη, hamppu).
Orange is the colour of international Cannabis
prohibition. In 1925, the first placement under international control happened in the “Orange Room” of the League of Nations’ headquarters. Today, diplomats at the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs meets annually in an orange building to reaffirm their 1925 commitments to combat a plant that accompanied humankind for millennia. In the country that epitomises the “war on drugs” with a special focus against Cannabis, hundreds of thousands of people have been jailed, in orange, for interacting with this millennial plant.
Flag of the Cannabis Embassy
Like a plague, the orange of prohibition may taint some leaves. But leaves are destined to fall, seasons turn, and the eternal green diversity —both human and botanical— eventually covers the strains of prohibition, a temporary and failed global social experiment.
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