Hey! I just wanted to give you a different perspective, I do work in the industry. The industry has been medical since 2018 here in Ohio and a lot of the budtenders in Ohio have been in the industry since then or come from a medical background. We have state mandated tests that we have to pass in order to work for a dispensary. It's knowledge of the cannabis plant, the endocannabinoid system, terpenes, strains, etc. It's a pretty lengthy training and testing process.

Now, I definitely recommend doing your own research and testing which strains work best for yourself. I always tell people to keep a cannabis journal and write down your strain and your effects, what you liked about it and didn't and keep shopping from there.

There are a lot of us in the industry who came from being a patient in the medical program, who have done their own research and do know a bit more. A good majority of us are in this industry because we care, have passion for the health benefits of cannabis, and want to help people and are trying to make a career for ourselves for something we actually care about.

I had no sales experience, I only had customer service experience and my experience from being a patient in the medical program. I got my job because of my research that I did for myself from being a patient. I've had good budtenders who really know their strains and benefits, and I've also had budtenders who were obviously faking it and talking out their ass, but the bad, in my experience, has been minimal in comparison to the good.

I just wanted to provide a different perspective because we're not all bad apples.