4 Things You Should Be Doing For Your Budtender

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To balance out my previous commentary, 4 Lies Your Budtender Will Tell You, I asked a number of weed sommeliers to let me know some changes every customer could do right fucking now, thank you very much.

Tip at least a dollar every time you make a purchase.

Even if it’s for a $3 preroll, you cheap asshole. This isn’t an Apple Store employee. This is someone who you should treat like a bartender or waitress—basically anyone who is an expert on the things you consume. You wouldn’t order a drink without tipping at least a dollar. Same rules here, ‘kay?

Don’t take for fucking-ever smelling bottom-shelf.

The budtender is rolling her eyes at you as you smell the fourth $8 gram jar she’s handed you. It’s like asking a bartender the quality of well vodka. It gets you high. Don’t pretend you’re an expert and discuss the complexities of six-month old sungrown. You’re fooling no one. And there are people behind you, white man.

Be polite, you impatient fuckhead.

Understand that your impatience might be coming from whatever symptoms you’re using weed to cure—and that the budtender in front of you has to absorb people in pain all day long, from veterans to medical patients to tweakers easing their addictions with marijuana, and more. Put on a happy-mask the moment you enter. You can punch your car wheel in less than five minutes.

Have fun.

Be proud of your local dispensary and advocate for its good in your community in any way you can. This starts with creating a positive atmosphere at the place where you cure and recreate. Everyone who smokes or works in weed got into it because it’s really fucking fun. That should be the first thing on everyone’s mind at every moment in every dispensary.

Oh and don’t fucking smoke in the parking lot. It’s really tacky.

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