"budtender" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"You can call me the bud tender,\" the white-coated Arrow said as he offered patients their choice of 13 different kinds of marijuana, in addition to such goodies as chocolate-flavored cannabis bars."
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          "ref": "2005 June 15, Dean E. Murphy, “California Reins In Clinics Using Marijuana for Medical Purposes”, in The New York Times",
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          "ref": "2013 May 17, Jenny Kleeman, “Cannabis: Colorado's budding industry”, in The Guardian",
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