The cannabis industry has exploded across the US
I can remember smoking weed in school and convincing myself that I wanted to be in the legal marijuana industry that was mainly sequestered to the western United States at the time.
- However, the legal cannabis industry has exploded across the United States, and now there are more places where it is legal in some capacity opposed to locales 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 buddy Larry has been a budtender in our state’s medical marijuana program since early 2018 and he has worked for multiple odd 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 customers are often irritated and ready to take out that anger on the budtender. Despite various 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 buddy about the realities of the job for a few hours. He hates getting berated by cannabis store customers, plus it gets worse all of the time. People get severely entitled when they’re dealing with employees at stores of all kinds these days.