marijuana budtender

front of house supervisor

assistant general manager

cultivation technician

back of house supervisor

PharmaCann

Typical Day at Work: Each day at Pharmacann felt like navigating a minefield of toxicity. The air was thick with tension, and the atmosphere was suffocating. Unclear expectations and conflicting priorities made it challenging to focus on the tasks at hand.

What I Believe I Learned: Despite the adversities faced at Pharmacann, I learned invaluable lessons in resilience, adaptability, and the importance of setting boundaries. I discovered my limits and found the strength to push through even the most difficult circumstances.

Management: The management at Pharmacann was deeply disappointing. Favoritism ran rampant, with certain managers being allowed to engage in abhorrent behavior, such as calling the team "re******" and "worthless" to their faces. Worse still, there was no reprimandation for such toxic conduct. Employees who dared to stand up for themselves or others were swiftly phased out, creating a culture of fear and silence.

Workplace Culture: The culture at Pharmacann was toxic and demoralizing. Instead of fostering a supportive environment, there was a pervasive sense of favoritism, gossip, and a lack of accountability. It was disheartening to see how little value was placed on the well-being and dignity of employees.

The Hardest Part of the Job: The most challenging aspect of working at Pharmacann was navigating the toxic environment created by management. Dealing with unreasonable demands, office politics, and the constant fear of retribution for speaking up took a toll on my mental and emotional well-being.

The Most Enjoyable Part of the Job: Despite the challenges, there were moments of camaraderie with supportive colleagues and a sense of accomplishment from overcoming obstacles. These moments, however fleeting, served as a reminder of my resilience and strength.

In conclusion, my time at Pharmacann was a harrowing experience that taught me valuable lessons about myself and the importance of a positive work environment. I hope that my feedback will help shed light on the toxic culture at Pharmacann and prompt positive change for future employees.


I worked in kitchen and also doubled as a MIPs packager for two years at LivWell. Working in kitchen requires you to be on your feet all day, follow SOPs, the production and packaging of edibles, as well as being able to lift at least up to 20lbs by yourself. And if you work in kitchen, expect to lend a hand in MIPs packaging. The roles for that will be Grambling (weighing wax, shatter, etc. into gram jars), cleaning and pouching hash pens, stickering lids, and final packaging.

The things I enjoyed about the job: learning how to bake any kind of edibles, from cookies to caramels; free snacks and 1 hr paid lunches at the end of every month; some flexibility with scheduling. 

The things I disliked about the job: favoritism in the workplace, unprofessional management and coworkers, zero opportunity for growth, the attendance point system, working conditions, and low pay.

Personally, I do not recommend working for this company. Some of us in kitchen did not receive proper training on all the edibles; therefore, we did not have all the required experience needed to be able to work all of kitchen. The majority of the time we were obligated to work in MIPs packaging without extra pay (they even cut our recommendations so we spent more time helping out packaging than doing our own job). Furthermore, employees who sit on their phones all day and hardly get any work done get promoted while employees who have a strong work ethic are underappreciated due to favoritism.

To add salt to the wound, LivWell has become a greedy company. Employees who catch COVID are required to use their PTO and sick pay before LivWell uses the money they were given to pay their employees while they're forced to quarantine. Health insurance is poor and the quality of our products have suffered greatly for the sake of quantity.

Since I quit my job at LivWell, I no longer support the company and strongly advise others not to give in to such a corrupted business.

Want a decent paycheck and a quick foot in the door with the cannabis industry? Great!!! Get in and get out. 

Want a long term career with a company that cares about your development? Keep looking. 

Verilife / Pharmacann upper management (DMs and above) only care about 1 thing. Money. There is ZERO accountability, ZERO communication, and ZERO respect for the personal lives of their employees. The gossiping and backstabbing is what you would expect from teenagers in a high school drama tv series. They will throw you under the bus the first chance they get. Upper management will also use manipulation in order to get information on other dispensary team members.

Want to destroy morale within the dispensaries? Lets extend our business hours with little warning. Want to destroy it even more? Lets try to extend the hours again not even 2 months after the first extension and only give your teams a few weeks to to plan for it even though we are all severely understaffed. Want to make sure you destroy every last bit? Lets restructure the bonus program so that it negatively impacts the employees who put in the work and achieve their sales goals. Want to give the dispensary teams one last giant middle finger? Lets cancel everyone's holiday PTO with zero warning and tell them we are now going to open on Thanksgiving and Christmas in a medical market. (Good luck with that)

Bottom line is that this VERILIFE/PHARMACANN does not care about their employees or their patients. Stay away. 

The only positive comment I can make is that I love my dispensary team. They are the best and I will always support them. They come in and work 9-10, sometimes 11 hour shifts only to be treated like trash by Verilife / Pharmacann. They deserve better. 

I'm going to get into some details for context. In early 2020, I took a budtender job for the company's Commerce City location. I was kinda of ecstatic. I've given up on looking for a budtender job. During my first two weeks, I have been given prised by my leads for being a quick learner. However, they had one problem. My "personality" (keep this in mind). My boss sent me to the Federal Heights location while the Commerce City location was being built. It was a snooze fest. Then my third week happen, my boss ask me to transfer to the Federal Heights location because he thought it be a "better" fit. To help me "grow" my personality. Remember when I said 'Keep this in mind'? Well... I have Aspergers. Their was nothing wrong me. I felt like he wanted to get rid of me but didn't have the cajones to fire me. So he ask me to transfer. BIG mistake. In fact, I only said yes because I felt like I have to. My time at the Federal Heights location was boring. I put in my two weeks because I didn't live in Federal. I didn't have a car. So it didn't make any sense for me be there. However, my lead talk me into staying with the company. I agreed, I told them that I would like to transfer to the grow. Next day, I changed my mind to stay as a budtender. However, I DIDN'T want to be at Federal. The boss thought I meant I want to stay at that location. Without hesitation, I put in my two weeks. Then COVID happen. Livwell started to close small stores down. Except for Federal of course. I receive a phone call from my lead, telling me about the new schedule. I told her, this couldn't work for me. So I told her, "I want my last day to be tomorrow". She then pressure me into quitting over the phone. 

TL;DR: I felt like this company took avantage of me and I could never forgive them. 

P.S. I apologize for any bad grammar. My phone doesn't have a spell check.

This company bought out another company that I'd been working at for about 2 years. The original company was no great shakes either, with very expensive (and useless) benefits and - this is something I've never run into before - no holiday pay! Anyway, they let us know they'd be acquiring us and it eventually happened at the grow facility I was at late last year. This company does have a really excellent benefits package, including having the medical premiums paid for. That doesn't help much when you're a "new employee" who has to go from having (crummy) benefits to no benefits at all while you're waiting to pass the 60 days to be allowed to use those benefits. As another part of that transition/probation, you're not allowed to seek positions in other facilities/stores for either 6 months or a year. Naturally, this didn't apply to anyone in management/ownership from the previous company. Also, they have a rule against wearing hooded sweatshirts in the grow (fans in the cure rooms can make for a chilly environment) and also wearing headphones of any kind while working. The fact that these rules were then not enforced wasn't really much of a consolation. It may be an easier go if you're a new employee starting from "square one" anyway, but the unique situation of having the same job at the same place but with no benefits (and "probationary period" besides) and also not being allowed to at least come in with an interview to see if there's maybe something they can offer (with their multiple store locations and grow facilities) that would fit a "new employee" better. Either way, it's not like many corporations that trumpet their "values" ever actually live up to them. But this company was particularly difficult to work for, and I'm just happy that I left. 

Packaging and Trim Crew. This is a performance based company. They DO NOT HIRE directly for any packaging position. You will start in trim and may be there forever. Their performance requirement for trim is an unrealistic amount for most people except Rock Stars and Brown Nosers. If you do not meet that daily quota, you will get a verbal warning first. After that you will be written up for lack of production. Two more written warnings and you will be terminated unless you voluntarily quit.

Do not apply if you have any medical conditions. They worry more about on the job accidents than a person’s medical conditions. Several people had breathing problems or reactions to materials and they eventually were either forced to quit or were terminated for cause.

They hire upper management with little or no experience in the industry making it impossible to work efficiently. Mostly snot nosed 21 - 25 year old people with an “I am better than you attitude.” No matter how many years you have invested working for this company, you are 100% replaceable with no hesitation or explanation. Total intimidation is their number one tool. They are constantly pushing out great employees and underpaying the ones that remain. They will blow a lot of smoke up your rear to appease you but what they tell you has no substance.

You may get a shining yearly review and may be lucky if you get a few cents raise. They could care less about their dedicated, long    term, hard working employees. Just a terrible group of people running this company. BEWARE: Look elsewhere for a job if you plan on having a career in the cannabis industry.

Packaging and Trim Crew. This is a performance based company. They DO NOT HIRE directly for any packaging position. You will start in trim and may be there forever. Their performance requirement for trim is an unrealistic amount for most people except Rock Stars and Brown Nosers. If you do not meet that daily quota, you will get a verbal warning first. After that you will be written up for lack of production. Two more written warnings and you will be terminated unless you voluntarily quit.
	
Do not apply if you have any medical conditions. They worry more about on the job accidents than a person’s medical conditions. Several people had breathing problems or reactions to materials and they eventually were either forced to quit or were terminated for cause.
	
They hire upper management with little or no experience in the industry making it impossible to work efficiently. Mostly snot nosed 21 - 25 year old people with an “I am better than you attitude.” No matter how many years you have invested working for this company, you are 100% replaceable with no hesitation or explanation. Total intimidation is their number one tool. They are constantly pushing out great employees and underpaying the ones that remain. They will blow a lot of smoke up your rear to appease you but what they tell you has no substance.
	
You may get a shining yearly review and may be lucky if you get a few cents raise. They could care less about their dedicated, long term, hard working employees. Just a terrible group of people running this company. BEWARE: Look elsewhere for a job if you plan on having a career in the cannabis industry.

I love working at Verilife. It is hands down the most mentally healthy job I have ever had the pleasure of employing. The team is close knit, supportive, creative, and able to make it through our roughest times. We learn about cannabis everyday, share wonderful relationships with our patients ( who, you really get to know by name and enjoy ).

  There are times where the company and marketing seem unorganized, and they have done 2 lay offs since I started there in 2019. Aside from that Working under NYS is tough because of regulations, proper documentation from doctors, and dosing.

You also end up Helping people a lot with the process that you go through to get a med card after consulting with a doctor sort of falls on your lap. (which requires making an account on the states website) Its tedious because often some people don't know how to work an email, so you end up having to help them on their cell phones or a tablet until they can finally access a temporary ID card to even make a purchase. The program in general should be more clear for the patients sake. We spend ALOT of time educating people. This industry is new, So people have a lot of questions.  You need to be confident and have a lot of social energy because you consult all day long, sometimes for an hour or more. You have to really know this stuff! So, It all can be tedious to maneuver if you're new to it being a worker OR a patient, But its nothing we cant handle. 

Overall, I couldn’t really recommend anybody to proceed a job with Pharma can depending on what state you’re in the rules for how the facility operates is different the one  Wapak Ohio structured like a  factory they have a point system exactly like a factory, but in a factory you receive 12 points when you work for Pharmacann you only receive 7 points for a full 12 months then any points that you had fall off and restart. You have to put your phone in the locker and if you’re a parent and or a caregiver that means essentially you’re cut off until you get your break and the brakes are set up like this if you come in at 6:30 in the morning because they open up at 7 o’clock in the morning You will not have your lunch break until 1230 in the afternoon. The reason that is because they need somebody to cover the reception desk all times so if you come in from 12 to close which is 9 PM then you have to immediately take your lunch as soon as you get there so if you get there at 12 you have to go take your lunch at 2:30 before the people  That opened up that leave for the day . You’re getting 2-15 minute  breaks throughout the day but that’s not true at all if you asked to go outside and smoke or if you ask for a break, they will tell you you could take a five minute and that’s it. I do like the fact that you can wear what you want as in hats and things like that but to be honest with you, I feel like that’s the only benefit of this job

What is the best part of working at the company?
the paychecks haven't bounced, yet. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having to work for people that have no clue what they're doing so they constantly make stupid decisions.   In 2 years there not one change they made was for the better.  That and being forced to cover multiple stores because they don't want to hire enough pharmacists.  If your little box on the schedule is colored in, you get to do double the work that day. Not only will you cover the store you're supposed to, you'll also cover another store that you're not. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They mostly hire people with a lot of anxiety who think weed will help it.  Then management spends their time scaring them so they buy more weed to combat that anxiety. This way the company gets their payroll back in profit when they employees spend their check right at the store.  It's one of the most miserable places I've worked.   it's sad to see what they do to the employees, basically dangling weed in front of them like a carrot on a stick so they keep pulling that cart and filling the pockets of corporate level employees. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Sit at a desk for 12 hours. Make customers  show Id to a camera, then open door. Take id and scan it, if it works, do some copying, pasting and clicking then hand them their card back and open the second door. Lather, rinse, repeat a few hundred times then leave in a worse. mood than when you came in.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Marijuana budtender 185 salaries reported	$17.55 per hour
Front of house supervisor 64 salaries reported	$20.71 per hour
Assistant general manager 20 salaries reported	$65,753 per year
Cultivation technician 9 salaries reported	$21.80 per hour
Back of house supervisor 31 salaries reported	$21.37 per hour

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