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Discover Your Personal Bud Master
Tailored Lifestyle Advisory
Bud Masters is a connoisseur club and industry advocate for the legal medical and recreational cannabis industry. Our team of lifestyle consultants is dedicated to providing personalized advisory services for cannabis flower connoisseurs, ensuring that you receive the attention and support you deserve for your journey through the world of cannabis flower options.
Our Services
Personalized Solutions
We offer personalized cannabis purchase selections for any legal medical or recreational dispensary. Taking into account the strain options, potency, terpene content, and our proprietary blending system, Bud Master blend experts will make the best combination of purchase recommendations for your enjoyment and entourage effect possibilities.
Cannabis Education & Advocacy
Informed Consumption
Our cannabis history dates back to the very first legal U.S. state granting legal medical status in 1996. Our services ensure that you are well-informed about consumption methods, dosage, and responsible usage. Let our experts guide you through the complexities of cannabis consumption for a safe and enjoyable experience, not only for medical, but also for recreational use. Our future blogs will cover topics ranging from natural pesticide options and techniques, organic farming tips and tricks, terpene combination selections, and industry pros and cons so the consumer, the growers, and the dispensaries can work together to enrich the cannabis industry and experience.
Product Reviews & Endorsements
Informed Decision-Making
Our expert product analysis services are designed to provide insights and recommendations for enhancing your cannabis flower experience. From vaporizers, pipes, bongs, and other inhalation technics to trays, smoke diffusers, filters and other products - our team will put already verified quality products through rigorous testing and designate official Bud Masters Approved products so that you may make informed purchase decisions. Our goal of partnering with the designated product manufacturers to make official Bud Masters versions of products and sell them directly here to our members is in the early stages.
Program coming soon...
Our expert lifestyle consultants have been building a database of strain information, terpene levels, interactive effects and more to create a proprietary blending system. We will offer recommendations for flower purchases, blending menus for daytime, mid-day to evening, and night-time blends for all participating dispensaries. This system rollout is in it's final stages of formation and will be offered in select markets to beta test the intricate working parts with dispensaries, customers and our database system before hitting the greater market.
Bud Masters: Cannabis by Numbers
39 Medical & 24 Recreational
Legal States in the U.S
15% of U.S. adults smoke cannabis
38 million U.S. cannabis smokers
Almost 15,000
Cannabis dispensaries in the U.S.
$38.5 Billion
2024 U.S.cannabis market size
49% of all Sales is flower (Bud)
$18.8 Billion in U.S. flower sales
64% use cannabis to relax
21% of all consumers prefer flower
Why Choose Bud Masters
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Tailored Lifestyle Solutions
Bud Masters offers a unique way to select and purchase your cannabis flower that will enhance your enjoyment, give you the best possible entourage effects and full spectrum experience available from your dispensary of choice.
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Expert Guidance
Our founding team alone has combined over 110 years of cannabis experience to provide expert guidance and attention to detail. Ensuring that our entire staff follows the leadership's passion for quality flower from the grow to the bowl, we are committed to delivering high-quality recommendations, product selections and industry advice.
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Regulation Guidance
Our industry advocacy began in the 1990's assisting Dennis Peron's fight to legalize cannabis medicinally. As members of the original San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club in 1991, and assisting with the promotion of Proposition P, the journey had begun to state legalization in 1996 with Proposition 215. Misguided regulations and poorly drafted statutes continue to create the need for industry advocacy and Bud Masters is on the front lines consulting with legal and industry to improve conditions and promote a healthy industry.
How the Bud Masters blending service works for you
STEP 1: Dispensary
You have a dispensary you like to visit and would like a recommendation for your next flower purchase.
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Our experts need the website and be able to access an online menu from your dispensary to make informed selections.
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Enter in your information and the dispensary URL and our experts may begin processing your request.
STEP 2: We work
​Our Blend Master will take the dispensary inventory list and cross reference the strain information with our database and blending system to recommend two (2) single* strain sativa, two single* strain indica, and two (2) hybrids to purchase.
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*Single when available, otherwise multi-strain sativa or indica dominant respectively. As you can see from our 2024 - 2025 Sampled Strain list, most strains fall in the 60% to 80% dominance.
STEP 3: Recommendations
Within 24 hours of your request, Bud Masters will deliver to your email a specialized purchase recommendation for the dispensary you choose.
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The recommendation will be for a total of six (6) flower strains; two (2) Sativa, two (2) Indica, and two (2) Hybrid.
​Some experts will include blending suggestions for Day Blend, Midday Blend, and Nightime Blend.
Our new year begins every April 20th, and during the year until the following April 19th, the founders try as many strains as they can to determine what the growers, dispensaries, and consumers are being offered each year. We try them so you don't have to guess what the new hybrid combination is, or worry about the lineage.
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The best flower smoking experience comes from the entourage effects created by the right combination of trichomes, cannabinoids, flavonoids, and terpenes. There are plenty of grow operations based on scientific manipulation to achieve this through strain genetics and hybridization, while others believe in more pure strain foundation. Bud Masters tries as many of the new strains as possible, but we do tend to lean back to more straight lineage or simple crosses and hybrids.
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Bud Masters believes one can achieve the best cannabis flower experience through a careful selection of strains that "work well together" and blending the actual flower instead of trying to create a new hybrid strain from the two strains. We carefully select two sativa strains whose terpenes balance well together and end up with a sativa blend with at least 70% dominance. We do this again for indica so that club members end up with a 70% blended Indica, a 70% blended Sativa and then two hybrids that blend together to create a 50/50 blend.
Every strain we try is put to the test by blending it with similar strains; Sativa with Sativa, Indica with Indica, and Hybrid with Hybrid, to see if they blend well together as strain types first. Then each strain mix (Sativa blended, Indica Blended, Hybrid Blended) is mixed in various amounts to create an AM BLEND (min. 70% Sativa), a MID-DAY BLEND (50% Sativa/50% Indica) and a PM BLEND (min. 70% Indica).​
CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEARS WINNERS !!
Top Grower
Lion's Den Family Farm, CA
Top Dispensary
Garden of Weeden, MO
Top Packaged Brand
C4 Carrol County Cannabis Company
Every year, Bud Masters takes our ratings from all of the sampled strains and picks the top 14 of each Sativa, Indica and Hybrids to make our TOP 42 STRAINS of the year!
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As you can see we tend to lean toward 70% or above Sativas and Indicas, while maxing out our Hybrid selections around 60% dominate but mostly 50/50.
*We ALWAYS recommend organic flower if is grown well and available due to the lack of chemical pesticides, better flavor profiles and some of the smoothest smoke you will find. If you need a source in CA, or want to recommend organic growers in any other legal states please contact us.
The Benefits of Blending...
The Bud Masters blending system is designed around giving people the best possible cannabis flower smoking experience, no matter what time of day they decide to treat themselves. We pay particular attention to the strain details and characteristics to choose the best individual strains of each specific category; Indica, Sativa or Hybrid.
It has become commonly known that the various strains categories exude different characteristic effects and even in today’s overly saturated Hybrid strain market, the differences between Indica dominant and Sativa dominant can adversely affect one’s expected outcome. At Bud Masters, we try out as many strains from as many reputable growers as we can, and cross-reference our data to give you the most complete recommendations for any of the participating dispensaries.
We start by giving you the best combinations of strains in each category in order to start your base of blending options. The dispensary typically carries a plethora of product from Indica to Hybrid to Sativa and from many different growers and packaging operations. Our Blend masters will recommend two (2) Indicas, two (2) Sativas, and two (2) Hybrids to purchase, and then include blending options to create your:
AM Blend, MID-day Blend, and a PM Blend. This means that you will be smoking or vaporizing various combinations of six (6) different strains all at once to maximize your entourage effect while minimizing adverse side effects.
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Our AM Blend recommendations will be 70% Sativa, while our Mid-Day Blend will be 50% Sativa / 50% Indica, and the PM Blend will be 70% Indica. This allows the daily smoker to adjust their blend based on the time of day they wish to enjoy.
Relaxation of the mind and body, alleviating muscle pain, joint pain, and other forms of chronic or acute pain. The relaxation also comes with some sedative properties and may promote sleep. A calming, relaxing, euphoric state that may reduce nausea and increase appetite.
A stimulating and energizing mind elevation that can create alertness, motivation and focus. Inspirational euphoric and happiness stimulation properties can enhance sociability, aid creativity and improve productivity. Nausea relief, appetite stimulation and analgesic properties.
A balanced cross between an Indica strain and a Sativa strain to achieve a balanced 50%/50% effect profile.
