In late 2016, Riley, the artist and owner of Wandering Bud, began searching for a side project to fill her evenings after spending her days teaching elementary music. With a love of all forms or art and a drive to create a business with an impact, Riley set up a small studio space in her basement and began crafting her wares by hand. In May of 2018, she left teaching to create for Wandering Bud full-time.

At Wandering Bud, we strive to bring beauty and intention to your ritual through thoughtful design, sustainable practices, and education.

While we legally operate a business in the cannabis-adjacent space, people (predominately Black) continue to be incarcerated for small weed-related crimes. The stigma and criminalization of cannabis is largely due to its racist roots, dating all the way back to the early 1900s. To obtain a better understanding, we recommend reading this article and watching the documentary Grass is Greener on Netflix to get a clearer view of the racially-motivated practices politicians employed in order to control and incarcerate BIPOC. These racist ideologies and actions of long-deceased politicians still shape our cultural mindset surrounding the cannabis plant today.

Being in this industry, we feel it is necessary for all cannabis and cannabis-adjacent businesses to acknowledge and operate with social justice at the forefront.

At Wandering Bud, we will continue to:

• Promote the education of cannabis through our social media and email platforms.
• Support the BIPOC community by collaborating, contracting, and hiring to our team whenever possible.
• Donate twice monthly to the following equity-oriented organizations:
• Kansas City GIFT
• Floret Coalition’s rotating organizations

As we continue to further our own knowledge about social justice in the cannabis space, we encourage you to do the same! Below are some resources we trust and support:

• Drug Policy Alliance
• Last Prisoner Project
• Minority Cannabis Business Association
• Black-Owned Cannabis Businesses
• Latinx-Owned Cannabis Businesses
• Indigenous-Owned Cannabis Businesses
• Asian-Owned Cannabis Businesses
• Broccoli Mag | Weed News