Recently, the City of West Hollywood, California unveiled the nation’s premier cannabis restaurant, Lowell Cafe. Now, it appears as if the pot-friendly SoCal city is about to have another weed eatery. Scheduled to open in Spring, 2020, Aeon Botanika will be a 7,000 square foot one-stop-wellness-shop with not just a superfoods cafe, but also a cannabis boutique, dispensary, spa, and Moroccan-themed cannabis tea lounge, too.
Aeon Botanika is the brainchild of Nicole Fox, a registered dietitian who trained at UCLA and co-founded two of LA’s earliest medical dispensaries, the Green Goddess and the Higher Path. With a background in functional and integrative medicine, Fox serves on the board of L.A.’s biggest cannabis trade association, the Southern California Coalition, as well as the California Minority Alliance.
“We are in a time when more people are turning to cannabis as a medicine and including it as part of their wellness lifestyle,” said Fox in a press release. “I am thrilled to bring my two passions, healthcare and cannabis, together to create the Aeon Botanika experience. I am beyond grateful to the City of West Hollywood, who has always supported the movement to end the prohibition of this healing plant. We are committed to paying this forward as a social impact company.”
Meanwhile, Aeon Botanika’s co-founder and chief marketing officer, Veena Parekh hails from California and has lived in Amsterdam for the last ten-plus years. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Economy from UC Berkeley and a Master’s degree in Development Studies from Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in community development and political economic empowerment.
“We’re not just creating a business; we are building a place of beauty where