The reason why pharmacists go to school and get so much training for their task positions is because they’re almost as crucial as a medical nurse.
A pharmacist’s task is to guess about existing drug interactions, especially if a patient is prescribed two medicines from one or multiple nurses and there’s a chance for a serious contraindication. Doctors aren’t perfect and might forget that you’re on a medicine from before that is going to confrontation with something being prescribed for the first time. There was a medicine I was prescribed once that is known to cause cardiological problems when combined with one of our older prescriptions. If the pharmacist hadn’t caught this potential problem, there’s no way I would have had a clue that it was even a complication whatsoever. When you’re purchasing cannabis, you can’t expect the level of commitment and understanding from your cannabis budtenders that you get from your pharmacist. They don’t go to school for years to get government certifications to dispense medications of every kind, including those stressed by the DEA. In our state, most budtenders are glorified cashiers. They’re given more training to operate the dispensary’s point of sale plan and laptop than they are about cannabis, the products available, and the effects that one can expect from each. The best cannabis budtenders in our local dispensaries go out of their way to educate themselves on all of the strains and cannabis products available in the stores in which they work. If you’re not getting paid well, where is; where has the impetus to do the extra labor of researching these things in your free time?