Close your eyes and imagine a staff meeting at a cannabis dispensary. If you have never attended one, then you probably have a wildly inaccurate view of what they are like. You might envision everyone passing around a bong and going over the sales figures for the week. In truth, no one ever smokes weed in the dispensary, it’s considered unprofessional. Although the employees of the cannabis dispensary all get high regularly, it is never done on the worksite. The reality is so much more boring, because the employee meetings are usually to set up that week’s medical cannabis training courses. At this shop, my boss doesn’t want budtenders, he wants intelligent people well-versed in every aspect of medical cannabis. For this reason he has mandatory training sessions every week that go into exhaustive detail about different kinds of medical cannabis products. For example, last month I spent two hours learning the science behind vape products. Next week he is giving us a legal lesson, about the laws governing medical cannabis in our state, and every state surrounding us. I applaud his efforts, because these training courses make us the most educated cannabis budtenders in the area. Our cannabis dispensary may not have the lowest prices, but we definitely have the most knowledgeable budtenders. When our customers have a question, one of us will know the answer, and that makes our whole medical cannabis dispensary seem a lot classier. The boss says that he doesn’t want to just sell medical cannabis, he wants to educate his clients on every aspect of it.