Since 2014
A sudden ache. Anxiety. Aging joints. Pets can’t tell us what they feel, but we can help. My Best Bud uses cannabis science to provide safe, effective support for animals’ well-being.
My Best Bud is California’s only cannabis brand focused on pets. We combine scientific research, real-world pet data, and clinical-grade ingredients to deliver products that work.
With two U.S. patents and the largest private database of cannabis outcomes in pets, My Best Bud gives pet parents confidence: science first, results always.
Cannabis is individualized medicine and not one-size-fits-all.
My Best Bud® formulations use whole-flower cannabinoid and terpenoid ratios to help reduce stress, improve mobility, support neurological and gastrointestinal health, and promote balance.
Unlike many cannabinoids, several terpenes interact directly with known biological targets.
For example:
β-Caryophyllene
• Selectively activates the CB2 receptor
• Modulates inflammatory signaling
• Supports tissue recovery and immune balance
Because CB2 receptors are abundant in immune tissues and inflammatory pathways, β-caryophyllene is considered one of the most pharmacologically relevant terpenes in botanical medicine.
Other terpenes influence additional systems:
Linalool
• Modulates glutamate and GABA signaling
• Supports stress regulation and calm neurological activity
My Best Bud was born from love, and from loss.
Dr. Alexander Raskin was a gifted orthopedic surgeon — the kind of doctor patients traveled hours to see. At 41, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For a year he fought it the way he had taught his own patients to fight: every single day, without surrender. At 42, he was gone.
What I could not make peace with wasn’t only the loss. It was the silence around it — that one of the deadliest cancers had seen so little progress in a generation, and that an entire avenue of science, cannabis, was still going largely unstudied while families like ours ran out of time.
Alexander had spent his career in a discipline where the line between human and animal medicine was always thin. In orthopedics, the same implants, the same techniques, and many of the same medicines move between species — what we learn treating an animal can help a person, and the reverse is just as true. Healing has never honored the boundary we imagine between us and the companions we love.
So I built a company around that truth.
My Best Bud is, at its heart, a science company in the form of a wellness brand. We develop precise, clean cannabis formulations for animals — and we carefully gather the real-world data those formulations produce, so that what eases a beloved pet today can help inform what heals a patient tomorrow, in both veterinary and human medicine. This is the promise of what medicine now calls One Health, and it is the foundation of everything we make. And that evidence has already borne fruit: it has led to more than a dozen granted and pending patents, spanning our formulations, our methods of delivery, and our methods of treatment.
Our patented OMD™ delivery reflects that same rigor: rather than being swallowed and lost to the gut, it is absorbed gently through the gums, where it works faster, more reliably, and at a fraction of the dose. Every formula is built to a medical standard, not a marketing one — because the patient in front of us cannot tell us how he feels, and trusts us completely.
We do not do this alone. Our advisory board brings together both veterinarians and medical doctors — practitioners who share a single conviction: that the animals we love are far more than pets. They are family, and they deserve medicine made with the same care, evidence, and conscience we would demand for any member of our own.
It has also become a family endeavor in the most literal sense. Alexander’s two sons now work in the company that carries their father’s name — one soon to begin medical school, the other completing his studies in law. They grew up watching him heal people. In their own way, each is carrying that forward.
Today, My Best Bud is California’s only patented pet cannabis wellness brand. But the patents were never the point. They are proof that we did this the right way, for our animals, for the science, and for the man whose name this company carries.
Every best bud who feels a little more like himself is also a small step forward for medicine. That was Alexander’s life’s work. It is now ours.
Over the past decade, My Best Bud’s scientific formulations have undergone extensive research and development, testing, data collection and analysis to continue to provide our customers with our highest quality products.
My Best Bud® products are specifically formulated for Oromucosal Delivery (OMD) and rapid absorption directly into the bloodstream.
With Rapid Relief OMD™, therapeutic agents bypass the gut and liver by adhering to the oral mucosal lining—unlocking rapid systemic absorption, reduced dosage, faster relief, and a non-invasive patient experience.
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