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 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.
“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
