Ras Maurice Clarke—a Rastafarian originally from Kingston, Jamaica, who now lives in Washington, D.C.—says that he wanted to "dispel the ignorance and fictitious talk about all we do is smoke ...

He lights it, sucks it in, and pushes out smoke that float upward and fill his single room. “Is this what the Rastafarian movement is about? Smoking weed?” I ask. He slants his head ...