# Why the Canadian flag has a cannabis leaf on it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403 "2000-12-13T20:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/1 "2000-12-13T20:41:52Z")
Strange indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/2 "2000-12-13T20:47:07Z")
Oh, you lovable mutt! That’s a MAPLE LEAF! Now c’mere so’s I can give you a Dutch Rub. {thunk} ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/3 "2000-12-13T20:52:21Z")
S’nothing. I always thought the [flag of the Ainu](http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/jp_aspir.html) looked like a penis in a vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Lego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@Lego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lego)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/4 "2000-12-13T20:53:37Z")
It’s Maple. But, you can buy t-shirts in at some malls that do have the cannabis version. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/5 "2000-12-13T21:04:51Z")
Canadian National Anthem: OH CAN-NA-BIS Our leaf and favo **u** rite drug True drug-ged love When all thy sons are high I ran out of ideas, even though I’m looking at the real lyrics [now](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/news/1999/09/08/o_canada/). Maybe someone else can do a better job. I suck. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/6 "2000-12-13T21:25:07Z")
Uniball, are you the stupidest person on earth with internet access? Really, if you think that is a marijuana leaf, I’ve got some killer kind I’ll sell you. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/7 "2000-12-13T22:17:05Z")
Never actually seen a pot plant, have you??? Sorry, but this made my day! ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/8 "2000-12-13T23:05:20Z")
Tell me this is a joke, okay? ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/9 "2000-12-13T23:56:46Z")
::sings offkey:: Hitler…he’s only got one ball… ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/10 "2000-12-14T00:02:33Z")
[Here’s](http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?category=Regional&story=/news/2000/12/11/pot001211) the real reason. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/11 "2000-12-14T00:40:13Z")
Well, Canada is still the only place where I’ve been offered free marijuana brownies. Not only do you Canadians take the herb, you’re generous with it as well. How many of us wouldn’t take cannabis rosin over maple syrup? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/12 "2000-12-14T00:48:54Z")
What can I say? We are a giving and sharing nation! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/13 "2000-12-14T03:40:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scratch1300 \* > \*\*S’nothing. I always thought the [flag of the Ainu](http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/jp_aspir.html) looked like a penis in a vagina. > > \*\* My goodness. It does doesn’t it? Well what do you expect would come from independent movements and aspirent people? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/14 "2000-12-14T04:09:19Z")
Hey Uniball; Don’t believe the dumbasses on here. It IS a cannabis leaf. Here in Canada, the stuff grows on freakin’ TREES, man. All over the place. If you send me $5,000, I’ll send you fifty kilos of those Canadian cannabis leaves in red, green, and yellow. Can’t beat that! Whaddya say? ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/15 "2000-12-14T07:35:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Oh, you lovable mutt! > > That’s a MAPLE LEAF! > > Now c’mere so’s I can give you a Dutch Rub. > > {thunk} \*\* Does this remind anyone (in reverse) of that Doonesbury cartoon where Mike (?) offers to show Roland Hedley some “real marijuana”. Last panel has Hedley’s editor telling him “Roland, that’s a **lilac bush**!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/16 "2000-12-14T07:48:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by adam yax \* > \*\*Uniball, are you the stupidest person on earth with internet access? Really, if you think that is a marijuana leaf, I’ve got some killer kind I’ll sell you. \*\* Now now, don’t be rude. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/17 "2000-12-14T15:28:45Z")
Northern Lights # 5. The only good thing about BC. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/18 "2000-12-14T18:43:48Z")
Yeah, I smoked some British Columbian (Colombian?) stuff this one time. . . That was nice. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/19 "2000-12-15T02:12:52Z")
It was Zonker, not Mike Doonesbury, who showed off Walden Commune’s “pot plant” to Roland Hedley. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403/20 "2000-12-15T02:18:54Z")
Wow, I have some of those in my back yard. I should try selling them to the trailer park kids… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-canadian-flag-has-a-cannabis-leaf-on-it/45403.md?page=2)