Given it's many uses, it's more likely the flag pole rope was made from hemp, but the flag could have been also.
I think the last time hemp was officially mass cultivated was in WW-2 for rope and probably other industrial uses as well in support of the war effort, but we've declared war on it since.
Considering how many valuable things each contain and uses plants like hemp and tobacco offer, it's interesting how we only focus on what we want to and ignore the rest.
How great the ignorance to automatically reject what one knows nothing about? And, then force others to abide by that ignorance and/or those fears?
"Mind your business," as Franklin said.
I don’t give a damn about the history of a specific plant... it is a canard...
Denying someone the use of their property is a taking of that property and violates the 5th Amendment.
You should be able to grow opium poppies if you want to.
This all boils down to the individual rights of property owners.