Cannabis Rainbow Flag (United States format)
Community Pride Flag
A rainbow flag in the format of the United States flag, with a cannabis leaf where the stars would be and rows of small leaves where the white stripes would be. The transposition is exact: thirteen bands, seven of leaves and six of colour, under a canton two fifths of the flag’s length. No designer or date is documented. It is manufactured in 3 by 5 foot polyester by Strongest Link and by Homissor, sold from about ten dollars, and bought by February 2018 at the latest. [1][2]
Key facts
Archive categories Rainbow Pride Flags · Subculture Pride Flags
Overview
No account of the flag’s making has been located. It is documented through manufacture and retail: it appears in the catalogues of flag manufacturers and print-on-demand sellers, and Will Montgomery records it as a common sight at Pride events. Where it began, and with whom, is undocumented. [1][2][3]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- Queer cannabis users
- Subcommunity
- the overlap between Queer communities and cannabis culture
The flag joins two symbol sets rather than naming an identity label: the rainbow of the Pride flag and the cannabis leaf. It is used by people at the intersection of the two, and by vendors selling to them. No organization or community body has been documented as defining what it represents.
Creators
Creator unknown
No identification located
No designer is documented. The design circulates through flag manufacturers and print-on-demand sellers, none of whom names an author, and no origin post, announcement or claim of authorship has been located. Two manufacturers are named on their own listings, Strongest Link and Homissor, but a manufacturer is not a designer and neither claims to be one. [1][2] This is a design that reached wide commercial circulation without a recorded maker, not one whose maker is being withheld.
Contribute information about who designed this flag.
Origin
- Country
- United States
The United States flag format places the design in an American idiom, and it is sold chiefly into the American market, but no source establishes where or when it was first made. The Homissor storefront ships from China, which locates a manufacturer rather than an origin. [2]
Dates & Chronology
- First public use
- Creation Bounds
- Undated as a design. The date recorded bounds the flag’s sale rather than its making: the earliest customer review displayed on the Amazon listing is of 15 February 2018, so the flag had been manufactured and bought by then. [1] The listing carries no date-first-available field, and Amazon displays only some of its six reviews, so an older one may exist. No source dates the design itself.
Documented through manufacture and retail rather than through an announcement or an adopting organization. Strongest Link sells it on Amazon in 3 by 5 feet, lightweight polyester, under the title LGBTQ Rainbow Pride Marijuana Pot Leaf Cannabis Flag. [1] Homissor sells the same size in 100 per cent polyester with brass grommets, shipping from China at 9.99 dollars against a struck-through 12.99, and USA TOPFLAGS resells that product line in packs of two at 17.99. [2][3] Those last two are one supplier rather than two, sharing a distinctive listing phrase and a product name.
Several distinct cannabis-and-rainbow designs circulate alongside this one, including versions that place a single leaf at the centre of a six-stripe rainbow. This entry covers the United States format specifically: a leaf in the canton and leaf rows between the stripes.
Lineage
Formally a member of the group of Pride flags built on the United States flag's canton-and-stripes structure, alongside the Gay USA flag and Sean Patrick Campbell's magenta-canton version. No documented design relationship connects them; the resemblance is the shared national format, which is why they are recorded as related rather than as ancestors and descendants.
Colors & Symbolism
A seller states the reading, and no one else does. The Amazon listing describes the design as featuring “the colors of the rainbow, a symbol of LGBTQ+ pride, and a cannabis leaf, symbolizing support for the legalization of marijuana.” [1] That is a manufacturer’s marketing copy rather than a creator’s statement, and no creator is documented to have made one. Nothing published assigns meanings to the individual stripes or explains the choice of the United States format.
| Colour | Hex | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Red | #FE0103 | Sampled from the seller’s product image. Approximate. [1] |
| Orange | #F9921B | Sampled from the seller’s product image. Approximate. [1] |
| Yellow | #FFFE03 | Sampled from the seller’s product image. Approximate. [1] |
| Green | #28B622 | Sampled from the seller’s product image. Approximate. [1] |
| Blue | #3366FF | Sampled from the seller’s product image. Approximate. [1] |
| Purple | #9A32CF | Sampled from the seller’s product image. Approximate. [1] |
| Field | #000000 | Sampled from the seller’s product image. [1] |
This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.
- Cannabis leaf in the canton
- Occupies the position of the stars on the United States flag. A seller reads the leaf as support for the legalization of marijuana; no creator statement exists. [1]
- Rows of small cannabis leaves between the stripes
- Occupy the position of the seven red stripes, leaving the six rainbow colours in the position of the six white ones. No documented statement of intent.
The only statement of meaning located comes from a seller. No creator-stated meanings exist to record, since no creator is documented. [1]
No manufacturer publishes a specification and no palette has been established. The values above are sampled from the compressed product image the entry shows, which is a seller’s rendering rather than a source file, so they record roughly what that image contains and should not be treated as the design’s colours. Manufactured flags differ from one another in shade in any case. [1]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5
- Ratio Notes
- Standard production ratio, and here a documented one: both manufacturers’ listings give 3 by 5 feet. [1][2]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 13
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
- Additional Symbols
- A large green cannabis leaf in the canton, Rows of small green cannabis leaves separating the coloured stripes
The structure of the United States flag on a black field, transposed exactly. Measured from the product image: thirteen bands run down the flag, each between 7.3 and 7.8 per cent of the height against a thirteenth’s 7.69, alternating a row of small green cannabis leaves with a coloured stripe. Seven of the bands are leaf rows and six are colours, with leaf rows at the top and bottom edges, which is how the national flag arranges its seven red and six white stripes. The red, orange and yellow stripes all begin at 40.6 per cent of the length, where the canton ends, against the national flag’s two fifths; the canton spans the first seven bands, as the national flag’s spans seven stripes. A large green cannabis leaf sits in the canton in place of the stars, and the green, blue and purple stripes run the full width beneath it. [1]
No design specification has been located. The manufactured flags are 3 by 5 feet in polyester with two metal grommets, and one seller describes them as printed with UV-resistant ink. [1][2][3] Manufactured versions differ in leaf drawing and in the exact shade of the stripes.
A black field in the format of the United States flag: a large green cannabis leaf in the canton, six rainbow stripes, and rows of small cannabis leaves between them.
Usage & Adoption
- Geographic Usage
- United States
- Online Usage
- Sold on Amazon by Strongest Link [1], Sold by Homissor and resold by USA TOPFLAGS [2][3], Listed by further flag manufacturers and print-on-demand sellers
- Current Status
- active
Circulation is commercial and physical: this is a flag people buy and fly rather than one that circulates chiefly as an image, and the earliest evidence of a purchase is a customer review of February 2018. [1] Will Montgomery records it as a common sight at Pride events. What the sources establish is manufacture and sale; no organization or event has been documented flying it, and no photograph of it in use has been located.
Discourse & Debates
Common misidentifications
- Not the same as the several cannabis-and-rainbow designs that place a single leaf on a plain six-stripe flag. This entry covers the United States format.
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 3 sources
Retail listing
- 1. LGBTQ Rainbow Pride Marijuana Pot Leaf Cannabis Flag 3x5 ft. Strongest Link. Amazon. Accessed 2026-08-14
The listing that carries the manufacturer’s name, the flag’s size and material, the only statement of meaning located, and the customer review of February 2018 that dates the design’s sale.
- 2. Homissor Rainbow Marijuana Pot Leaf Flag, 3x5 foot, brass grommets. Homissor. Homissor. Accessed 2026-08-14
The manufacturer’s own storefront: 3 by 5 feet, 100 per cent polyester, shipping from China.
- 3. Pack of 2 Marijuana Pot Leaf Flag Gay Pride Heart Care Hug. USA TOPFLAGS. USA TOPFLAGS. Accessed 2026-08-14
A reseller of the Homissor line rather than a separate supplier. Cited for its description of the design as made into the pattern of the American flag.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- seller's product image
- A seller’s product image, supplied by Will Montgomery. Rights not established; the photograph carries its own rights independently of the design.