Bud & Mary’s is dedicated to delivering the best cannabis experience with high-quality cannabis. With direct control or strategic partnerships for cultivation, manufacturing, formulation, packaging, and dispensaries, we maintain the highest standards of quality.
Bud & Mary’s is a multi-generational family-owned company named after the first generation of our family, Bud and Mary Nelson. With decades of plant science behind us, our core values reflect longevity and family values. Proudly 3rd generation and locally sourced, we prioritize our customers’ wants and needs and are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of innovation through cannabis research. Bud & Mary. For the people.
Our core values drive everything we do, resulting in the best possible Bud & Mary’s cannabis products and a people-focused approach. At our core we are empathetic, we are experts and we are a source of value.
Empathy is the active, intentional effort to understand, appreciate, and connect with the circumstances and perspective of others—our teammates, our customers, and our partners. It means prioritizing the well-being and safety of the people around us, creating an environment where employees feel safe to approach supervisors, and leading with compassion, patience, and a positive attitude. This includes the courage to initiate and navigate difficult conversations with respect and grace.
Excellence is the relentless, curious pursuit of technical precision, skillfulness, and accuracy in our roles. It is the commitment to continuous learning and leadership that means leveraging our understanding of cannabis science to teach, train, and uplift the entire organization. We focus on our strategic goals, ensuring that every action represents a contribution toward achieving high impact results for our team and our customers.
Value is the tangible, measurable, and positive impact we bring to our communities, customers, and the industry. Delivering true value is the ultimate result of practicing Empathy and Excellence; it requires the integrity to handle difficult conversations and the commitment to growth—of our business, our individual skills, and our people—to consistently deliver our best work for every customer.
Bud & Mary’s takes a future-forward approach to cannabis. From cultivation to formulation and beyond, we leverage our deep roots in plant science and medical cannabis research to deliver high-quality cannabis products.
Our formulation and research teams incorporate pharmaceutical experience along with organic and sustainable best practices to create consistent cannabis products across all our cannabis brands. Bud & Mary’s is the first to receive a DEA cannabis research license in the United States for clinical trials.
Bud & Mary’s actively engages with over 50 social impact partners to enhance community well-being, promote cannabis social equity and foster positive change in the communities where we operate.
Bud & Mary found Kemin Industries in a vacant wool barn. With 5 kids under the age of seven and a vision to expand, they develop innovative agricultural products.
Lucas Nelson takes leadership of the cannabis operation under the name MedPharm. As a 3rd generation member of the Nelson family, Lucas continues with the mission of improving lives. Colorado cannabis manufacturing facility receives licensure under the name MedPharm Colorado.
Our Iowa medical cannabis manufacturing facility and two dispensary locations are licenses and begin operating.
With custom-built hardware and premium THC distillate, Batch vapes hit the Colorado market and quickly gain popularity.
MedPharm Colorado manufacturing facility is the first cannabis facility in the United States to earn GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) certification.
MedPharm Colorado receives a license to conduct clinical trials focusing on the impact of cannabis on Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Developing new technology, our team of scientists create a dissolvable THC powder that is fast-absorbing for an edible that takes effect within minutes. Our team is awarded a patent for this technology.
As trailblazers in cannabis research, our Colorado research facility is awarded the first license for cannabis research in the United States.
As our company expands, we changed our name to Bud & Mary's to better reflect our family focus and to honor Bud and Mary Nelson and their ongoing contributions to plant science.
Michigan cannabis manufacturing facility awarded license and begins operating.
We introduce NUO, updating our Aliviar product formulations and look. As a science-powered wellness brand, these tinctures and creams offer therapeutic relief for consumers.
As our cultivation team continues to grow incredible flower, we release our Bud & Mary’s pre-rolls into the Colorado market.
In collaboration with local artists we launch Curated. Curated flower is the result of an extensive phenohunt, showcasing our finest strains.
Missouri manufacturing facility receives licensure and begins operating.
