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Maple leaves are pretty recognizable. There’s a whole entire country that’s got one on its flag.

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As a Minnesotan who pops gummies every night, I can safely say I have no idea how many leaves are on a marijuana, but a maple is 3 points with 3 points on each of them and 2 teeny tiny little legs at the bottom

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The iconic sugar maple leaves have 5 lobes, not 3. I am a Certified Naturalist with a specialty in native trees.

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I think you are saying the same thing in a different manner. The other two lobes being the “legs” at the bottom. Looking at pictures of sugar maple leaves, both descriptions fit to me.

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3 points

What kind of certification do you need to take your clothes off and play volleyball with your friends?

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1 point

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada

Blame Canada! It isn’t a real country anyway.

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9 points

Being able to reproduce it from memory is different from recognizing it though

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9 points

Fake news, Canada’s not a real country, it’s made up, like unicorns, or gypsies.

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1 point

Birds aren’t real

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9 points

Split the middle. Japanese Maple Tree leaves look almost identical to Marijuana leaves.

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Maple leaves are pretty recognizable, but if I saw a silhouette of a marijuana leaf next to the silhouette of a maple leaf, I’d probably pick out the marijuana leaf first. I’m not really even a weed user. Might just be me, though.

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95 points

(four leaf) clover have to be in the top five most recognizable too

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13 points

Probably more recognizable TBH.

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73 points

I think Canada would like a word

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I always recognize the Canadian flag because of the iconic marijuana leaf

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23 points

Legalise Canada

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13 points

M.A.C. enters the chat

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I see it didn’t take long for the anti-Canada lobby to arrive.

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Canada would like to have a word

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13 points

Canada: Am I a joke to you?

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11 points

The kids in the hall say yes

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3 points

Yes. This country certainly is right now

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2 points

Have you seen South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut?

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As much as I wish this were true, even little kids can recognize clover leaf.

If I had to rate recognition I think it would be:

  1. Clover
  2. Fern
  3. Maple
  4. Cannabis
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I feel like oak is also in the top 5. Possibly even higher than cannabis.

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Depends on where you live. We don’t have any oaks where I grew up. I couldn’t tell you what their leaves look like

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Individual leaves of clover definitely aren’t that recognizable.

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6 points

The leaf is the set of leaflets.

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Ahh yes that’s correct. My bad.

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