Three sentences get you most of the way there
Say the format, the experience level, and the number. Format means flower, pre-roll, vape cartridge, edible, tincture, topical or concentrate. Experience level means how recently and how often you have used cannabis, in plain terms: never, years ago, or last week. The number means your total for the visit, out the door. A workable opener sounds like this. I want a vape cartridge, I have not used cannabis since college, and here is my total for today. That is enough for a budtender to walk you to two or three options instead of reciting the whole case. If you have used something before, name it. Product name and what you thought of it are more useful than any adjective. If you disliked something, say so, and say which part: the format, the smell, the taste, the numbers on the label, the size of the package. Bring the conversation back to specifics whenever it drifts. Ask what the label says. Ask what the package holds. Ask what is on the menu today rather than what is popular.
Nevada sets what counter staff are trained on
Under NRS 678B.340, a person shall not volunteer or work at, contract to provide labor to or be employed by an independent contractor to provide labor to a cannabis establishment as a cannabis establishment agent unless the person is registered with the Board. That registration is a state requirement to work the counter. It is not a medical license. Before that first shift, a cannabis sales facility must also provide instruction on a list of topics the state itself sets out in NAC 678B.208(2). Four of those topics are close to what you should be asking about, in the state's own words: the different strains of cannabis, the different methods of using cannabis and cannabis products, required warnings and literature which must be supplied to the consumer, and applicable state and local laws and regulations regarding cannabis. Treat those four as your question menu. Formats, methods of use, what the label and package carry, and Nevada rules all sit inside them. Anything shaped like a diagnosis sits outside them, and asking anyway just produces a careful non-answer.
- Agent registration
- Required to work as a cannabis establishment agent, NRS 678B.340
- Pre-shift instruction topics
- Set by NAC 678B.208(2) for cannabis sales facilities
Health claims are off the table
NAC 678B.250 restricts how a cannabis establishment may promote cannabis. Under subsection 1, an establishment may only promote cannabis or a cannabis product through marketing the laboratory results on the label, and paragraph (c) states that an establishment must not make any health claims, including, without limitation, healing, curing, treating or reducing risk of any illness or health-related condition. That restriction runs to the cannabis establishment and how it promotes cannabis. So a question shaped like what should I take for a condition will not get you a health claim from a licensed Nevada dispensary, and it should not. Two rewrites that do work. Instead of asking what will fix something, ask what the label reports, what the package holds, and how the format is used. Instead of asking a staff member about your prescriptions, ask a licensed health care provider, then come back and shop by format.
- Health claims
- Prohibited for cannabis establishments, NAC 678B.250(1)(c)
