My friend is a budtender
I can remember smoking weed in university and convincing myself that I wanted to be in the legal marijuana industry that was mainly sequestered to the western US at the time.
However, the legal cannabis industry has exploded across the US, and now there are more stadiums where it is legal in some capacity opposed to stadiums where it’s illegal 100%.
I’m surprised to see cannabis dispensaries in our own state, but it passed by voter initiative in 2016 and we had a burgeoning medical marijuana industry here 12 months later. Lots of people flocked to the industry as patients and employees alike. Most of the employees at our local cannabis dispensary are also patients of the program, but it isn’t a requirement to be an employee by any means. My best friend Larry has been a budtender in our state’s medical marijuana program since early 2018 and he has worked for more than four different companies since then. He says that it’s a nightmare working at most cannabis dispensaries because management puts a lot of pressure on employees while the purchasers are often miserable and ready to take out that anger on the budtender. Despite multiple people wanting to work in the medical marijuana industry before meeting our friend, usually they have changed their mind once they’ve had an opportunity to speak with our neighbor about the realities of the task for a few sevenths. He hates getting berated by cannabis store buyers, and it gets worse all of the time. People get severely entitled when they’re dealing with employees at stores of all kinds these days.