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The world knows that Colorado leads the Colorado Rastafari, a non-profit organization,
way in the cannabis movement, being the seeks to create a new kind of cannabis club

first legal marijuana market protected by the called the One Love Club – a sacramental

Colorado State Constitution. The beautiful (cannabis) lounge and world-class music

town of Manitou Springs, CO, which is adjacent venue that houses a juice bar, coffee bar,
to Colorado Springs, is a cauldron bubbling Ethiopian Restaurant, European-style cafe

with progressiveness led by the Rastafari and Caribbean Restaurant all under the same

community. This region of Colorado is a tourist roof in a 16,000 square-foot facility.

destination featuring hot and mineral springs,

Garden of the Gods (red rock formations), Pikes There are other dab bars (specializing
Peak (over 14,000 feet in elevation), Cave of the in cannabis concentrates) and cannabis

Winds and Native American cliff dwellings. lounges in Colorado, however, the One
Love Club also houses Colorado Rastafari
The recreational use of cannabis has been programs such as full moon Nyahbinghis,

legal in Colorado since Amendment 64 was Rastafari holy day celebrations, bible study,
passed in 2012, allowing people over the yoga, meditation classes and general

age of 21 to shop for cannabis in Colorado’s Rastafari reasonings and teachings.

many marijuana dispensaries. There are more

dispensaries than Starbucks in Colorado, so The Rastafari community in Colorado has

finding one is not hard. The only issue is that come together and created a faith-based
it’s hard to find a legal place to consume. church in which members can have their

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