Photo: Nick Prezioso, courtesy of Ashley Bianca Corts Ashley Bianca Corts Ashley Bianca Corts is best known for Black Forge Coffee, her metal-themed coffee shops located in Allentown and McKees Rocks, but now she is expanding her expertise to weed. In January 2021, her business went mobile when she kicked off a nationwide Save Our Stages tour, focused on raising money for music venues struggling due to the pandemic. While on the road, she found another calling: reviewing different kinds of marijuana products and dispensaries as The Traveling Bud. Back in Pittsburgh, Corts put that expertise into her business, releasing a Black Forge “Wake & Bake” box a few weeks ahead of 420. Each box contains cannabis-themed products including a custom coffee, tea, and various handcrafted, locally made marijuana paraphernalia. The shop is
from my cold dark little heart? what? from my cold, dark little heart. clear eyes, full heart, can t lose. look at that. please, party night. don t get me started on friday night lights. do not get me started on that. let s quickly check in with randi kaye. do the folks even realize i guess it s in colorado so midnight is not approaching. are they aware of the time at this point or does time not matter? time doesn t matter to them. they re squinting. i m not sure if they re aware of the time. i m not even sure if they re aware of the year to be honest at this place. things have really gotten out of control. we have now moved on to cannabis-infused cocktails. i know we re really close to midnight eastern time. but this is our bud tender. and he is making a cannabis trying to get these drinks ready. oh my goodness. this is live tv. come on. this is a little bit of thc and what else?
facility, he s pushed it beyond anybody. this is a big boy operation now. there s no more games. if you want to do it big, he s throwing it all in. good for him, man. we re going to be pumping out great product here real soon. you got to inventory everything we have here. we got to make sure no one s stealing from us. we got to make sure no one s ringing things up wrong. we have to make sure we re making money and not losing money. edibles, one, 80 milligram. i pay attention to the details. inventory gets messed up pretty easy. sonny is our new bud tender. he does a lot of research. he s always calling the vendors and asking the questions the customers have if he doesn t have the answer. he s probably as knowledgeable as anyone in the company about the consumer side of cannabis.
we have an inventory of everything we have here. and we have to make sure no one is stealing things up wrong and have accountability for the business and making money and not stealing money. count up your edibles. i pay attention to the details and make sure it is not wrong and sometimes inventory gets messed up. sunny is our new bud tender. he knows the product. he does research and calls the vendors and asks questions and he is as knowledgeable as anyone in the company about the consumer side of cannabis. i have two passions. helping people and helping people. so did you hear what is happening? i heard rumors. what is an octo dab. it is josh s creation and it is a hinckley with a down with
every corner. we re here at starbuds denver university which was formally known as city med. remodelled the store and this is now starbuds. tada. awesome. awesome. the idea was to get away from the green green green. i m hoping aurora will be open real soon. do you think there is anything different? i think you want to keep that feel. she is also eager to work as a bud tender. getting trained properly is important. a single mistake could cost starbuds their license. i need to learn all the ins and outs. right. right. let s say for example, customer