At its 23rd meeting on 27 August 2025, the
Government of the Cannabis Embassy adopted
the official flag for Legatio Cannabis –
大麻大使馆 – سفارة القنب.
The shades of green represent the
sociocultural and biological diversity that
characterises Cannabis sativaL. (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.
“Salle Orange” behind a photograph of
the conference room where
Cannabis
was added to drug control in 1925 in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Credit: United Nations archives Geneva.
The UN headquarter hosting current drug
control institutions is a 1979-build,
127-meter-high orange building in
Vienna, Austria.
Credit: Wiener Tourismusverband/Mafalda
Rakoš
In the United States of America, hundred
of thousands of victims of prohibition
have been deprived of liberty and forced
to wear orange.
Credit: The Grand History of Cannabis/Mossy
Giant