budtender
/ˈbʌdtɛndə/noun US
A person who serves customers at an establishment where cannabis is sold: I started working at the dispensary as a budtender last June...
- A budtender holds a marijuana cigarette for a patient at Perennial Holistic Wellness Center medical marijuana dispensary.
- The budtender at Grow Life even said that the strain was extinct, only being kept alive by clones here and there, so I was really pumped to try it out.
- He sauntered into his neighborhood marijuana shop recently and asked the "budtender" for a look at his wares.
Origin
1990s: blend of bud1 (sense 2 of the noun) and bartender.