BOULDER — Here’s a job title that didn’t exist a couple of years ago: budtender.
“Hundreds of people come in here and want a job,” says Jan Cole, owner of GreenLeaf Farm, a dispensary in downtown Boulder, she says, and then amends it to about a hundred. Cole budtends herself and has hired five or six budtenders, often former patients, whose knowledge on the subject impressed her.
Cole, who pays her budtenders between $10 and $20 an hour, says some of her best budtenders are University of Colorado students, who became patients to deal with pain from skiing or snowboarding injuries.
Sarah Reidy, a budtender at GreenLeaf Farm, isn’t yet sure whether medical marijuana will be a part of her career future, but it’s a possibility. She’s a junior at CU, majoring in English and political science, and planning a law career.
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