BudhubCanada.ca is an online cannabis listings and directory website exclusively for Canadian businesses and cannabis enthusiasts. Users can search and find cannabis-related products and services in their area and they can learn about cannabis culture and other fun related topics.

Our mission is to help Cannabis in Canada move from a subculture into the spotlight of mainstream Canada by providing a modern centralized hub or community for like-minded people.

Users who enjoy cannabis recreationally or need marijuana for medical reasons can sign up for a free account to start posting reviews and interact with local businesses and with our community. Cannabis Businesses can add their listing as well to help position their brand to their ideal customers.

Learn more about BudhubCanada

When you sign up with Budhub Canada, you get all sorts of great stuff!

• Access to cannabis-related businesses throughout Canada.
• Be part of our passionate cannabis in Canada community.
• The ability to rate and review any business listing on Budhub Canada.
• A user dashboard where you can manage your account, public Budhub profile, reviews, ratings, and access your “Saved” or favorite listings.
• You’ll be part of the Chronic Beaver’s email club for cannabis-related deals and coupons, plus cannabis in Canada lifestyle articles (you can opt out at any time).

Awesome eh!

The best reviews are passionate and personal. They offer a rich narrative, a wealth of detail, and a helpful tip or two for other consumers. Think about your recent experience at a business – could you put details in there that would help future consumers like you?

• Try detailing your favorite (or least favorite) strains, bongs, or vapes at your local cannabis store, dispensary or head shop.
• Talk about an experience that will keep you coming back (or staying away) for years to come.
• Highlight a budtender who went the extra mile to make your experience memorable.
• Include tips about the best time to arrive, where to park, or how to get the best deals and coupons.
• Describe your experience with online stores, was your delivery quick and were your products as expected?

What should I leave out of my review?

You should aim to keep your review accurate and reflective of a genuine, personal experience. For example, personal opinions (“the buds here are the best”) are good, but speculation or exaggeration is something we frown upon.

Reviews are moderated for all of our business listings fairly and are treated very seriously. We will only remove or edit a review if it doesn’t follow the following guidelines:

Personal attacks, contains profanity, or is blatantly negative or bashing

There’s no need for any kind of sexual misbehavior, addressing other reviews or reviewers, hate speech and other displays of bigotry.

Conflicts of interest

Your reviews should be unbiased and objective. They should not mention another advertiser by name. If there’s any hint of a conflict, please don’t post the review. For example, owners shouldn’t sing the praises of their own businesses or bash their competitors or other business listings and users shouldn’t comment on their current or former employers.

Second-hand experiences, hearsay or you’ve never been

For example, you can’t give a dispensary a bad review because someone complained about their buds. Your reviews must be about your personal experiences, not someone else’s. If you haven’t been inside a business or tried a product, you can’t accurately rate it.

Relevance

Reviews aren’t the place for you to rant about a business and how they operate it, political views, or other matters that don’t address the core of the normal customer experience.

Blank reviews

A review without text isn’t cool!

User Review Verification

If a review is reported to our Moderation staff as potentially fraudulent (e.g., a malicious review from a competitor or a planted review from an ex-employee) and the author’s authenticity is in question due to limited activity and/or inconsistent activity as determined by Budhub Canada’s Moderation staff then we may un-publish the review in question pending user verification. While we encourage you to let us know if you believe another user has violated our Terms of Use, we reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate action at our sole discretion and are under no obligation to enforce our Terms of Use on your behalf against another user.

• As all business owners know, receiving negative reviews are a normal part of doing business (every company has had an upset customer at some point), and you shouldn’t be surprised to find an occasional negative review on your listing business page. We encourage business owners to write responses to reviews if they think they are inaccurate or they want to make amends with the reviewer.

Hello, nice to meet you!

I’m The Chronic Beaver, who created this site and a media website about Cannabis in Canada, lifestyle and fun!

I’m passionate about many things and cannabis is one of them, obviously. I firmly believe that I’m helping trail blaze the cannabis lifestyle as it moves from a subculture into the spotlight of mainstream Canada.

I’m a foodie fanatic and co-owner of a popular restaurant on Vancouver Island, BC. There is nothing like comfort food with a touch of class!  Opening and running restaurants was my passion for a long time. Nowadays, I just enjoy cooking up a storm for my friends and family.

Creativity, design, marketing, and problem-solving has always come naturally to me. For the past 8 years, I was the Creative and Marketing Director for an enterprise software company, but I left it all in January 2018 to be here, right now with you, helping trail blaze our new cannabis frontier in Canada.

Follow my cannabis crusade on my Facebook and Twitter pages and on my blog:

• Cannabis in Canada Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theChronicBeaver
• Fans of Pot Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ChronicBeaver
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/theCronicBeaver
• Blog: https://thechronicbeaver.ca

By visiting budhubCanada.ca you understand that “Adult” content may be encountered that is not suitable for children. You must be at least 19 years of age (or 18 years of age, where applicable) to use this site.

Business Review Policy Disclosure

Reviews are an important feature of BudhubCanada.ca and we take them seriously. Reviews (positive or negative) will not be removed simply at the request of Advertisers, reviews are only removed or edited by our Moderation staff if the review is in clear violation of our review policy. If our Moderation staff find no evidence of a review violation and determine that the review is in compliance with our policies, then the review will not be removed. Reviews of all business listings are treated the same, regardless of their advertising status.

General Disclosure

BudhubCanada.ca and its affiliates affirm that we do not perform any due diligence on any information, ownership or content on any of our clients or users. We make no claims as to the authenticity of any third party information appearing on our site. We don’t endorse, approve, certify, or control third party content and don’t guarantee or assume responsibility for the accuracy of content provided by any third party.

Our platform is set up so you can add your business listing yourself, but help is always available – How to Add a New Listing.

If you prefer to have us do it for you so you can focus on what you’re best at, then please see out Business Services page.

If your business is already listed in our directory, and you would like to take control of your listing so you can update your business info and add your menu etc, then you can request to claim the business listing with a free 30 day trial, by verifying and establishing your identity as the real business owner to get the most out of Budhub Canada.

The Claim Now link on your business listing page is located at the bottom right side of your page.

The Claim Now on a business listing details page allows the real business owner to establish its ownership by verifying it with us. Once we verify and accept your claim request, then only your business listing gets a Verified badge.

Occasionally we offer a Free Trial promotion, and when it expires your listing will be unpublished. You will get a notification email stating that your listing has expired, at this point, you can upgrade your business listing. Additionally, your listing content won’t be lost, it can be accessed anytime in your User Dashboard. This is where you can renew, upgrade and edit your listing and manage your account.

Ad Campaigns are self-serve ads that you can launch and setup yourself that are accessible in your account Dashboard. We have 2 types of Featured Ads to choose from that run for as long as you desire. The Ads are easy to set up and cost as little as $0.70 per day. They are great for promoting your brand to your target audience and maximizing your listing’s visibility in search results.  When you run an Ad, your featured image is used for it, and a “Featured” small banner is positioned in the top corner.

Here is an example of what a Featured Ad looks like:

The Ads credit for the Marketing Hub Pro listing package is a $50 credit (annual package), or a $5 credit (monthly package) that is applied towards self-serve Ads.  After you make your purchase and your listing is verified,  you will be immediately entitled to the Ads credit to help promote your new listing. Our team will launch the Ad Campaign for you within 24 hours after your listing is verified. The full Ads package costs $1.60 per day to run, so for example, the $50 Ads Credit will run for just over 30 days. After that, you can launch your own Ad Campaigns via your account dashboard and set any budget you like.

We have a blog post that covers this topic. How To Add A New Business Listing > Images and Upload Feature Image

The Feature Article that comes with the Marketing Pro package is an opportunity for your business to feature or spotlight any kind of promotion or event. It could also be used to talk about your business and how great it is, and what makes your business unique.

Feature Articles are published on Budhub Canada’s blog, on our cannabis lifestyle website, and on our social media channels. They are drafted by you with some help from us, and when your Feature Article is finished, we will then review it one last time for SEO purposes so you get maximum exposure online.

Shortly after you purchase the Marketing Pro package, we will reach out to you to talk strategy, timing and next steps.

The homepage “Image Courtesy of” feature is an approved professional image from your business or an image of your choosing that is displayed at the top fold of our homepage. It is displayed for 2-week intervals for a nominal advertising fee and includes a courtesy link to your listing, located on the right side corner of the image.

For more information on how to get your business featured on our homepage, please contact us.

When you purchase a paid listing package with Budhub Canada, the listing duration is either for one month (30days) or for one year (365 days). They have to be renewed manually by you.

In order for your listing to be published, it has to be paid for in advance. You can pay via email Interact e-Transfer, wire transfer, or by using Paypal (Paypal direct, Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, and Discover). These payment options will be presented to you during the checkout process for your paid listing. Instructions on how to pay via email Interact e-Transfer or wire transfer will also be provided to you after you submit your paid listing.

Does my credit card get charged every month? No, it does not. Paid listings are prepaid that run for your listings duration. Recurring billing is not currently available with Budhub Canada, but it’s on our roadmap.

Here is what your listing includes, regardless if it’s a Free listing or Paid listing:

Locations – 1 (Including businesses with multiple locations or franchises)

Categories – 1 (If you would like multiple Categories, please contact us)

You the “Listing Author” can manage and respond to all the received reviews from your business dashboard.

Log into the site and please go to your business dashboard.

Then go to the option called Reviews > Reviews Received then choose any review you want to respond to and click on ’’See More’’, then click on ’’Reply to this review’’ and a text editor will appear. There you will get the ’’Send Reply’’ option.

Reviews are moderated for all of our business listings fairly and are treated very seriously. We will only remove or edit a review if it doesn’t follow the following guidelines:

Personal attacks, contains profanity, or is blatantly negative or bashing

There’s no need for any kind of sexual misbehavior, addressing other reviews or reviewers, hate speech and other displays of bigotry.

Conflicts of interest

Your reviews should be unbiased and objective. They should not mention another advertiser by name. If there’s any hint of a conflict, please don’t post the review. For example, owners shouldn’t sing the praises of their own businesses or bash their competitors or other business listings and users shouldn’t comment on their current or former employers.

Second-hand experiences, hearsay or you’ve never been

For example, you can’t give a dispensary a bad review because someone complained about their buds. Your reviews must be about your personal experiences, not someone else’s. If you haven’t been inside a business or tried a product, you can’t accurately rate it.

Relevance

Reviews aren’t the place for you to rant about a business and how they operate it, political views, or other matters that don’t address the core of the normal customer experience.

Blank reviews

A review without text isn’t cool!

User Review Verification

If a review is reported to our Moderation staff as potentially fraudulent (e.g., a malicious review from a competitor or a planted review from an ex-employee) and the author’s authenticity is in question due to limited activity and/or inconsistent activity as determined by Budhub Canada’s Moderation staff then we may un-publish the review in question pending user verification. While we encourage you to let us know if you believe another user has violated our Terms of Use, we reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate action at our sole discretion and are under no obligation to enforce our Terms of Use on your behalf against another user.

• As all business owners know, receiving negative reviews are a normal part of doing business (every company has had an upset customer at some point), and you shouldn’t be surprised to find an occasional negative review on your listing business page. We encourage business owners to write responses to reviews if they think they are inaccurate or they want to make amends with the reviewer.

We have a blog article that covers this topic – How to Add Your Menu to Your Listing

Here are a few good examples of great menus on Budhub Canada –  Namaste Vapes Canada and Cheapweed.ca

If you prefer to have us do it for you so you can focus on what you’re best at, then please see our Business Services page.

The free 1 hour consultation is provided to you when you purchase the Marketing Hub 2 annual package. The purpose of this free consultation is to help you with your listing and to show you your Business Dashboard features and how they work.

We can help in many ways:

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) suggestions
• How to set up backlinks or inbound links
• Get you started on creating your menu, with handy tips

Whatever pain points you encounter, we can help. We can even do all the work for you if you like, our business services team are creative professionals and we don’t charge an arm and a leg.

The free 1-hour consultation is a screen share online meeting and is scheduled around you, so please let us know when we can help.

Here is a breakdown of the Listing Packages:

Get Listed Hub (Monthly or Annual)

This is our basic listing package that you can take advantage of. It’s a great option for Bud & Breakfast 420 Rentals listings and for those who just want to showcase their brand to the cannabis community and who are getting started and need help getting online. It provides most of the core features available but without any add-ons or ad credits and can be upgraded anytime. If you choose to go for the Annual option, then you get 2 months free (only pay for 10 months) ending up only costing $12.50 per month.

• You can upgrade anytime using your Business Dashboard.
• You can edit your listing anytime using your Business Dashboard.
• All listings are reviewed by our moderators before it is published, usually within a few hours, but could take up to 12 hours.
• Each listing is for one location, multiple locations will require a separate listing for each.
• One category is allowed per listing (please contact us if your business needs a 2nd category).
• Creative/Design/SEO services are available for a nominal fee to help get your business listing up and looking pro.

Essential Hub (Monthly or Annual)

This package fits most of our customer’s needs, and it only costs $26 per month, if you choose to go for the Annual option, then you get 2 months free and it then only costs just over $21 per month with some perks thrown in. The Essential Hub package provides you with all of the core features we offer except for the “Hide Competitor Ads” feature, the Feature Article, additional SEO Inbound Links, and the $50 ads credit.

• Each listing is for one location, multiple locations will require a separate listing for each location your business owns.
• One category is allowed per listing (please contact us if your business needs a 2nd category).
• All listings are reviewed by our moderators before it is published, usually within a few hours, but could take up to 12 hours.
• Creative/Design/SEO services are available for a nominal fee to help get your business listing looking sharp, get your menu online, and for any other pain points that you may have.

Marketing Hub Pro (Monthly or Annual)

This package is our best of the best, the Marketing Hub Pro package puts your business up front and center and it puts our creative team to work for you (with the Annual option). It only costs $32 per month, if you choose to go for the Annual option, then you get 2 months free and it then only costs just over $26 per month with some great perks thrown in. The annual package includes all the features we offer with a $50 Featured Ads Credit that can be spent anytime, it comes with additional SEO Inbound Links and a Feature Article.  The Feature Article is published across our social media channels and our blogs and includes powerful SEO backlinks to your site.

You will get a big boost in visibility within our site and online.

• Each listing is for one location, multiple locations will require a separate listing for each location your business owns.
• One category is allowed per listing (please contact us if your business needs a 2nd category).
• All listings are reviewed by our moderators before it is published, usually within a few hours, but could take up to 12 hours.
• Our creative/content team will work with you for your feature article publication.
• The Featured Ads $50 Credit is administered by us and published when you want before your listing expires.
• Creative/Design/SEO services are available for a nominal fee to help get your business listing looking sharp, get your menu online, and for any other pain points that you may have.