Kanepi


Kanepi is a small borough in Kanepi Parish, Põlva County in southeastern Estonia.
Hugo Treffner, educator, founder of the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium was born in Kanepi as a son of a family of local parish clerk.

2018 Flag

In March 2018, the government announced to the citizens that they had to vote online in order to have a new flag and coat of arms. Foreigners saw this and found out that Kanep in Estonian means Cannabis in English and made a flag and coat of arms with the cannabis leaf in it, when it was time to vote, the flag won the contest with an overwhelming majority of 12,000 votes larger than the population of 5,000.
In May 2018, the city council, baffled by the ordeal, chose to vote for themselves if they wanted to officially adopt the proposed flag, with a slim majority of 9-8 voting to adopt the flag. On May 15, 2018, the municipality announced that the cannabis leaf flag will be the official flag of Kanepi, Andrus Seeme said, and on July 13, 2018 the flag was raised outside the Kanepi municipal building.

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