An essential skill for anyone in customer service to master is dealing with feelings of emotional burnout. Customer service can be draining, particularly for a budtender. It is exhausting to go from...
Many dispensaries keep “tip” jars near the cash registers in the United States. No suggested tip or percentage of the transaction is considered standard, like in other industries. Budtenders should...
Helga Bucher works at High Class Social Club in Barcelona, one of the hundreds of private consumption lounges that have cropped up in the city despite cannabis being illegal in Spain. "It is not...
Reymon Brown has always loved cannabis and wanted to parlay it into a career, especially as he saw his home state of Massachusetts legalize adult use. He decided to pursue a budtending job to get a...
Jeff Jones prepares edibles for patients, circa 1995. The history of the modern dispensary and much of its associated terminology can be traced to the Bay Area, where a group of advocates began to...
The narrative handed down for generations is that “sativa” varieties are associated with more awake, “caffeine-like” effects that make them ideal to consume during the day, whereas indica products...
In the fast-growing cannabis industry, budtending is a great entry point for a variety of career paths. A budtender job may be up your alley if you enjoy constantly learning about trends and...
Now that cannabis is becoming legal across the country, a slew of new jobs are cropping up for people who are passionate about the plant. The cannabis industry is poised to top $35 billion in annual...
Oaksterdam University is proud to sponsor the "Your Choice" Community Advocacy Award at the 2022 Budtender Awards, presented at G4 Live, May 12-14 in Las Vegas. Nominations for this prestigious...
Cannabis is the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., according to the newly-released Leafly 2022 Jobs Report. The sector now supports 428,059 jobs, up 33 percent from last year. It’s the fifth...
As a budtender, your customers and patients are going to have a wide range of questions about different methods of ingesting cannabis and dosing guidelines. In many cases, they may turn to you for...
Cannabis “budtenders” work in dispensaries or provisioning centers and are responsible for many of the same things anyone who works in retail is familiar with. Budtenders greet customers, assess...