Wondering what to buy? “Flowers, duh!” says budtender Katie Lake… but with a pot twist.

“In high school, my nickname was Miss Bakes. I guess it’s true what they say; old habits die hard,” says Katie Lake, who is currently working as a budtender at Shop Cori, a cannabis store located in Toronto.

“Initially, working in the cannabis industry was supposed to be a temporary gig,” Lake says in an email. The transition occurred as her business took a hit during the pandemic. But as time went by “I was enthralled with learning all I could about cannabinoids, wellness-focused consumption, the operations of the producers we carried, the strains they grew, the products they produced, which companies were conscious cannabis brands, and all relevant information I could access.”

– Read the entire article at Regina Leader-Post.