When a medical cannabis law was passed in our state, I jumped for the opportunity to be employed in the industry.
Although I really wanted to learn the growing process, I knew it would be much easier to secure a job as a cashier at a local dispensary.
It took the better part of several months to get the ball rolling, but soon there were cannabis companies cropping up all over the place. Since I had prior retail experience, I only had to apply to a few locations before I was hired on the spot. The cannabis corporations had to scale their size fairly suddenly, so hiring became a weekly practice. I had coworkers coming and going always, which doesn’t create the best experience for customers. Only a few of us have been steady employees, while the rest tend to be less knowledgeable budtenders. They also take longer to memorize the labeling process. The regulations for medical cannabis in this state force us to print special labels for every purchase. The patient’s name, patient number, and name of the doctor has to be linked to every product on a printed sticker. Thankfully we’re only using black and white labels, otherwise we’d be forced to purchase a digital color label printer and they’re harder to use. The new employees have a difficult enough time remembering to get the labels ready for each transaction, I can’t imagine adding digital color label printers to the mix. However, our company has floated the idea for the branding labels that go on all packaging like the flower jars and plastic locking zipper bags used for edibles and concentrate products.