INTERVIEW
MARYLAND LEAF BUDTENDER OF THE MONTH
SARAH RADINSKY “I HAVE SEEN THESE PATIENTS TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND WITH CANNABIS.”
HOW DO YOU APPROACH THE TOPIC OF TERPENES WITH PATIENTS? One of my old colleagues went out to California and met a budtender there, and she brought back a piece of information that really resonated with me. He wanted to turn patients from ‘THC chasers’ into ‘terpene hunters’ and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m the same way.’ So I try to take time and educate patients on the importance of terpenes, because they dictate the direction of your high. Teaching patients to work with their body chemistry and find what terpenes work is extremely important.
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WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE CANNABINOIDS TO USE? I love CBG. arah knows the ins and outs of medical Cannabis in Maryland, including what makes the industry Dr. Apgar got me on that, she is one of an exciting place to be – not to mention the nuances people would not expect. She does whatever the owners here at Greenhouse. I tried CBG for the first time, and the aches and she can to bring joy into the patient experience and make their time at the dispensary more than pains in my body melted away completely. just simply buying Cannabis. Be sure to say hello when you see her smiling face walking around I always recommend it to patients who struggle with chronic pain, and they come Greenhouse Wellness in Ellicott City. back with success stories. One of my patients struggles daily with migraines, and claims CBG has changed her life. My favorite strain WHAT SPARKED YOUR INTEREST IN GETTING INTO AS AN INSIDER IN THE INDUSTRY, WHAT IS right now would have to be Sour Gorilla from Curio THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY IN MARYLAND? So it SOMETHING PEOPLE WOULDN’T EXPECT ABOUT Wellness. was actually my grandmother who sparked my interest YOUR JOB? It’s an interesting job because it’s such a in this industry after she passed away in 2015, losing new job. Like you can’t go to Barnes and Noble and get WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR HOBBIES? I’m a nursing her battle with rheumatoid arthritis. She didn’t live long a book on how to become a good budtender. Unlike student at HCC, which takes up most of my free time, enough to experience medical Cannabis in Maryland, some industries where there is a set foundation for but I love it. I’m also into gardening – I grow herbs and but after she passed away I was really interested in getting started, you have to carve out your own path veggies. You can also catch me grinding Cannabis medicine and alternative medicine. Shortly after that, in this industry as you grow into it. This is also a very research in my free time, reading the latest articles on Cannabis became medically legal and I applied to local diverse job in terms of what you experience. The way cannabinoids being discovered. shops, working elsewhere before starting at Greenhouse patients talk to you and open up to you makes you Wellness in March 2021. feel like a cross between a bartender and a therapist WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT CANNABIS/CBD IN – adding a feeling of medical professionalism for MASS MEDIA, SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS, ETC.? WHAT DRIVES YOUR DESIRE FOR CANNABIS budtenders. I’m on the fence about it because it has taken over EDUCATION? Definitely my grandmother, and then the so much and grown really fast, that you have to sort patients I have met along the way. Many of my patients through the massive amount of companies to find who is remind me of her, whether they also have rheumatoid selling high quality CBD versus poor quality CBD. When arthritis or another chronic condition. I have seen these GREENHOUSE WELLNESS I see CBD at a gas station, part of me cringes – but I patients turn their lives around with Cannabis, and wish 4801 DORSEY HALL DR STE 110, ELLICOTT CITY, MD also like that everyone sees these things are a part of my grandmother could’ve had a similar experience. WEEKDAYS 10AM-7PM | SAT./SUN. 10AM-3PM our everyday lives. This helps shift the scope and push This inspires me to stay in the industry and help people for further legalization. GREENHOUSEWELLNESS.COM @TEAMGREENHOUSE reclaim their lives through alternative medicine.
OCT. 2021
INTERVIEW & PHOTOS by WYATT EARLY @ERRLYWYATT/MARYLAND LEAF S E N D N O M I N AT I O N S F O R B U D T E N D E R O F T H E M O N T H T O W YAT T @ L E A F M A G A Z I N E S .C O M
