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Licensed cannabis stores

Get your dispensary found, inside the rules.

Google and Meta ads are closed to most cannabis stores, so your Google profile, your reviews, your website and your menu listings do the selling. We build and run all of it for you, inside your province or state's rules, and an AI receptionist answers your store's phone with your store's name.

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Website, Google profile and SEO, done for youA receptionist that asks every caller's age firstBuilt to your province or state's rules

Your store, scored

We'll email your report to this address, and one of our specialists may call or email you about your results. Valistix Inc. keeps your details as a prospect until you ask us to delete them. Privacy Policy

Website speedGoogle visibilityReviewsFollow-up

Public data only, about two minutes. Your report shows on screen and we email it to you; we test-call your phone live on your fix-list call.

Why search does the selling for a cannabis store

A plumber can buy the top of a search page. A cannabis store mostly can't. In the US, Google and Meta don't allow ads for THC. In Canada, Meta doesn't either, and Google allows only a limited Search pilot for licensed sellers that runs to December 31, 2026.

So your customers find you by searching. When someone near you looks for a cannabis store, what decides who they see is your Google Business Profile (its categories, reviews, photos and hours), the website behind it, and your listings on Weedmaps and Leafly. That's work you own, and it keeps working after the month is over.

We do all of it for you, inside the rules. In this trade, an agency's mistake counts as the store's: the Cannabis Act bans publishing a prohibited promotion on someone else's behalf, and California treats an agent's act as the licensee's own. So we learn your market's rules before we write a word, and you sign off before anything goes live.

Sources
  1. Google Ads policy: recreational drugs support.google.com · 2026-10-05
  2. Google Ads: limited cannabis pilot in Canada (Search only, to 2026-12-31) support.google.com · 2026-10-05
  3. Meta Advertising Standards: drugs and pharmaceuticals (THC) transparency.meta.com · 2026-10-05
  4. Cannabis Act (Canada), section 23: publishing on behalf of another person laws-lois.justice.gc.ca · 2026-10-05
  5. California, 4 CCR section 15040(f): an agent's act is the licensee's law.cornell.edu · 2026-10-05
Done for you

Everything that gets a licensed store found

Six pieces of work, each built for how people search for a cannabis store and what the rules allow. You approve every piece before it goes live.

Google Business Profile and the map pack

Your profile rebuilt for the map pack: the right categories and attributes, exact hours and holiday hours, storefront and interior photos, and a weekly store update. Google lists cannabis stores only when they have a storefront and allows no product posts, so we build around both.

Reviews, asked the compliant way

Custom QR review cards and an NFC tap-to-review stand for your counter, in your branding. The same ask to every customer, nothing offered in return, and no pressure at the till. Every review gets a reply drafted for your approval, about the visit, never products or prices.

A fast website with a date-of-birth gate

A new site on your own domain, built to a 90+ mobile PageSpeed target. The age gate asks for a date of birth and sits over the page, so search engines still read it. Hours, click-to-call and directions come first, and your live menu sits behind the gate.

SEO for the searches near your store

Store schema with your hours and location, titles and headings written for searches in your town, a page for your town, category pages written as facts, and an education hub. Product markup stays off, because Google excludes cannabis from it.

Weedmaps, Leafly and every listing

We treat the menu sites as search engines: complete profiles on your own accounts, your licence shown, your menu synced. Your name, address and phone are cleaned up to match everywhere your store appears.

Branding and copy built to the rules

A look that reads as a licensed retailer: your colours, your storefront, your menu. No cartoons, candy styling or health claims, and in Canada no people and no lifestyle images. Every line is checked against your market's rules before it goes live.

Sources
  1. Google Business Profile guidelines (age-restricted businesses need a storefront) support.google.com · 2026-10-05
  2. Google Business Profile posts policy (regulated goods: no product content) support.google.com · 2026-10-05
  3. Google Maps user-contributed content policy (reviews: no incentives, no selective asks) support.google.com · 2026-10-05
  4. Google Search Central: interstitials and age gates developers.google.com · 2026-10-05
  5. Google structured data: product snippets (recreational drugs not allowed) developers.google.com · 2026-10-05
How it looks

What your customers see, and what stays off

Every place your store shows up has its own rules. Here is what each one looks like when we're done.

Your Google profile

Shows: storefront and interior photos, exact hours and holiday hours, store news and events, and a reply on every review. Stays off: product posts, deals, prices and price boards, which Google doesn't allow for cannabis.

Your website, before the gate

Shows: your store name, address, hours, phone, licence number and ID rules, then a date-of-birth gate set to your market's age. Stays off: prices, product pitches and deals, even in the page title and the link preview.

Your website, behind the gate

Shows: your live menu, category pages, visit and parking details, first-visit and ID answers, and store news. Stays off: health or effect claims, giveaways and contests, and anything that could appeal to a young person.

Weedmaps and Leafly

Shows: one name and address, your licence, your hours, photos and a synced menu, on accounts you own. Stays off: anything your regulator or the platform rules out.

Email

Shows: a sign-up behind an age check, a welcome email, and plain store news addressed to each subscriber by name, with an unsubscribe link. Stays off: text messages. Twilio bars cannabis businesses from texting in Canada and the US, whatever the message says, and other texting platforms restrict cannabis texts too, so your list is built on email.

Your phone, with Get Answered

Shows: an AI receptionist that answers with your store's name, says it's an AI and that the call is recorded, asks the caller's age, then handles hours, directions, ID rules, payment and what the live menu shows. Stays off: product and health advice. Call summaries reach you by email.

Sources
  1. Google Maps user-contributed content policy (no deals or pricing for regulated products) support.google.com · 2026-10-05
  2. Health Canada: promotion of cannabis, prohibitions and permissions canada.ca · 2026-10-05
  3. Twilio: forbidden message categories in the US and Canada (cannabis) help.twilio.com · 2026-10-05
  4. HighLevel: forbidden message categories for SMS and MMS (promotional cannabis texts) help.gohighlevel.com · 2026-10-04
  5. Klaviyo acceptable use policy (cannabis texts on short code and toll-free numbers) klaviyo.com · 2026-10-04
  6. California, 4 CCR section 15041: age affirmation before direct contact, telephone included law.cornell.edu · 2026-10-05
  7. Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, sections 6 to 11 laws-lois.justice.gc.ca · 2026-10-05
The rules

Compliance, built in from the first line

We check the rules where you sell before we build, and we build within them, in writing. You or your compliance lead sign off before anything goes live, and we keep that approval on file.

Your market's rules, checked at kickoffCanada has the Cannabis Act, and your province's regulator adds rules on age, hours, delivery, licence display and websites. Each US state writes its own. We check your market's current rules before the build, build to them, and keep the checklist in your file.
An age gate that asks for a date of birthSet to your market's age: 19 in most provinces, 18 in Alberta, 21 for US adult-use. Health Canada says steps that are easy to get past may need more, so ours asks for the date of birth instead of a one-click yes.
No health claims, anywhereNothing on your site, profile, listings or emails says a product helps with sleep, pain or anything else, or that it's safe because it's tested. Menu facts only: format, size and lab figures as labelled.
Nothing that appeals to young peopleNo cartoons, mascots, toys, candy colours or the word 'candy'. Your site looks like what you are: a licensed retailer.
Canada: no people, no testimonials, no lifestyleThe Cannabis Act bans promotion that shows a person, character or animal, uses a testimonial, or ties cannabis to a way of life such as glamour or excitement. So a Canadian store's site uses its storefront, map and menu as its images, and its reviews stay on Google: no star widgets, no quoted reviews.
Even the word 'dispensary' is checkedSome markets restrict it in a store's own name, signs and site, British Columbia and Michigan among them, along with medical words and symbols like 'pharmacy' or a green cross. We check your market, and where the word is restricted we write around it with words like 'cannabis store'.
No giveaways, contests or prize drawsCanada and many states ban product giveaways, buy-one-get-one offers, contests and raffles. Loyalty points depend on the market: banned in some, allowed in others. We check yours before anything goes out.
Your licence and required wording, on every pageYour regulator decides what must show: a licence or authorization number, a retail seal, or warnings that run word for word in some states. We put each one where it belongs.
Sources
  1. Cannabis Act (Canada), sections 16 to 24, current to 2026-09-21 laws-lois.justice.gc.ca · 2026-10-05
  2. Health Canada: promotion of cannabis, prohibitions and permissions (modified 2026-06-18) canada.ca · 2026-10-05
  3. Health Canada: cannabis in the provinces and territories (minimum ages) canada.ca · 2026-10-05
  4. BC Cannabis Retail Store Licence Handbook (medical words and symbols, loyalty) www2.gov.bc.ca · 2026-10-05
  5. Michigan Compiled Laws 333.17711 (restricted words, 'dispensary' included) legislature.mi.gov · 2026-10-05
  6. California, 4 CCR section 15040 (no giveaways, contests or candy styling) law.cornell.edu · 2026-10-05
  7. California Business and Professions Code sections 26150 to 26156 (licence number on advertising, 21+) leginfo.legislature.ca.gov · 2026-10-05
  8. Washington WAC 314-55-155 (required warnings) app.leg.wa.gov · 2026-10-05
  9. New York OCM: format-specific marketing requirements (loyalty points permitted) cannabis.ny.gov · 2026-10-05
  10. Massachusetts 935 CMR 500.105(4) (no loyalty programs or giveaways in advertising) law.cornell.edu · 2026-10-05
For your store

Get found, and get every call answered.

Two stages, built for a licensed store and its market's rules. For a licensed store, we usually recommend starting with Get Found, because search does the selling when ads are closed. Start with the one you need most; one of our specialists matches each to your store on a short call.

01

Get Found

Be the one they find.

Your Google profile, a date-of-birth-gated site, Weedmaps and Leafly, and SEO for the searches near your store.

  • A website built to make the phone ring.
  • Your Google profile and reviews working for you.
  • Your listings cleaned up.
  • Local SEO every month.
  • A monthly report on where you show up and what it brought in.

Local SEO every month in the bigger sizes, with listings cleaned up everywhere and local link outreach in the biggest.

Comes in three sizes, matched to your business on a short call.

See if it fits my business, Get Found
02

Get Answered

Every call answered, day and night.

Hours, directions, ID rules and what the live menu shows, answered day and night. Summaries by email, never a text.

  • An AI receptionist on the number you already have.
  • Answers 24/7 with your store's name, asks every caller's age first, and never gives product or health advice.
  • Books the job into your calendar.
  • Sends the customer a confirmation by email.
  • Puts urgent calls through.
  • Emails you a summary after every call, and sends no text messages.

Follow-up by email, website chat and CRM links in the bigger sizes.

Comes in three sizes, matched to your call volume on a short call.

See if it fits my business, Get Answered
Help me chooseNot sure where to start? Five quick questions, about a minute.
Step by step

From kickoff to your first report

What happens, in order. You approve each step before it goes live.

1
Day 0

Kickoff and the rules check

One of our specialists goes through your store, your menu provider and your market's rules with you. We confirm your licence and start the compliance checklist for your file.

2
Week 1

Your content, approved

We draft your pages from your information: hours, ID rules, visit details and your menu categories. You approve the text, photos and page list in writing. That's content approval.

3
Build

Site, profile and listings

We build the site and the age gate, connect your live menu, set up call and menu-click tracking, and rebuild your Google profile and listings. You see a full preview first.

4
Launch

Live on your own domain

Built to launch about 14 business days after you approve the content; a bigger site's target is written on your Order Form. The second half of the build fee is due within 7 days of the day we send you the finished site for final review, and the site goes live once it's paid in full.

5
30 days after launch

Your first report

Profile views, calls and direction requests, site visits and menu clicks, where you show up at points around your store, reviews gained, and what we fixed. Real numbers from your Google profile, your site analytics and our rank checks, and anything not measured says 'not measured'.

6
Every month

SEO and care, month to month

Hosting, security, care and Local SEO run month to month from launch, with a report every month. Cancel any time by email.

What the report looks like

What the monthly report looks like

First report at 30 days, then one a month. These numbers are made up to show the shape of it.

VALISTIX · REPORTSample report. Dummy data.
Google profile views4,120Search and Maps combined.
Calls from the profile212Taps on the call button in Google.
Direction requests506Taps on Directions in Google.
Website visits from the profile389Taps on Website in Google.
Menu clicks on your site1,140Visitors who passed the age gate and opened the menu.
Map pack position, 'dispensary near me'4th, 3rd, 6thChecked at three points around your store, the same three every month.
New Google reviews17Each one has a reply drafted for your approval. Total reviews: 263.
Citations fixed9 of 14Five left: two menu sites and three directories waiting on verification.
Pages published3Two category pages and one ID-rules page, all approved by your compliance lead.
Your rules

What you control, and the lines we hold

You own the rules and the approvals. We do the work inside them.

What you control

  • Which province or state rule set we build to, and who signs off for you
  • Every page, profile update and review reply, before it goes live
  • What the site says about products: facts from your menu, nothing more
  • Your hours, holiday hours, delivery wording and ID rules
  • Where the review cards go, and who hands them out
  • Your website, files, listings and data: the site is yours once it's paid in full, with a full export within 14 days of asking

What it never does

  • Make a health or effect claim, for anything you sell
  • Buy, fake or filter reviews, or offer anything in return for one
  • Post deals, prices or product posts to your Google profile
  • Use cartoons, characters, mascots or candy colours
  • Guess a price or a stock level the live menu doesn't show
  • Give product or health advice on your phone line
  • Text your customers: Twilio bars cannabis texting, and other texting platforms restrict it
Canada and the US

Canada and the US, on one page

Canada Billed in C$

  • The Cannabis Act sets the federal promotion rules, and your province's regulator adds its own on age, hours, delivery, licence display and websites. We build to both.
  • Age gates at your province's age: 19 in most provinces, 18 in Alberta.
  • Reviews stay on Google. A Canadian store's own site shows no star ratings, review widgets or quoted reviews, because the Act bans testimonials.
  • Email goes to a named adult who signed up behind an age check, with consent and an unsubscribe link under Canada's anti-spam law.
  • We work with licensed private stores in Canada outside Quebec, where the province runs the cannabis stores, and we check your province's rules before you sign.
  • Billed in C$, at the price on your Order Form. No sales tax is added today; if we are required to register for GST/HST it is added from the date the law requires. Pay by card or Canadian pre-authorized debit, processed by Stripe.

United States Billed in US$

  • Each state writes its own rules: age, licence display, warnings that run word for word, and what may be said about products. We check your state's current rules before the build and keep the checklist in your file.
  • Age gates at 21 for adult-use, and 18 for medical patients only where your state's program allows it.
  • Your licence number goes wherever your state requires it. In California, that's every ad and marketing piece.
  • Review requests follow Google's rules and the FTC's review rule: nothing offered for a review, and the same ask to everyone.
  • Email follows CAN-SPAM, with a postal address and an unsubscribe link in every email, and in California an age check before anyone joins the list.
  • Billed in US$, at the price on your Order Form. No sales tax is added today. Pay by card, processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number.
Sources
  1. Health Canada: cannabis in the provinces and territories (minimum ages) canada.ca · 2026-10-05
  2. Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, sections 6 to 11 laws-lois.justice.gc.ca · 2026-10-05
  3. California Business and Professions Code sections 26150 to 26156 (licence number on advertising) leginfo.legislature.ca.gov · 2026-10-05
  4. California, 4 CCR section 15041 (21+ affirmation before a mailing list) law.cornell.edu · 2026-10-05
  5. 16 CFR Part 465: FTC rule on consumer reviews and testimonials ecfr.gov · 2026-10-05
  6. FTC: CAN-SPAM Act compliance guide for business ftc.gov · 2026-10-05
Score your store

See how your store shows up online

Enter your store's name or website and your city. We check your site's speed and how well it works, how your store shows up on Google for its category in your city, your reviews, and whether anyone follows up when a customer reaches out. You get a written review, whether or not you hire us.

See your store's score first.

We'll email your report to this address, and one of our specialists may call or email you about your results. Valistix Inc. keeps your details as a prospect until you ask us to delete them. Privacy Policy

Website speedGoogle visibilityReviewsFollow-up

Public data only, about two minutes. Your report shows on screen and we email it to you; we test-call your phone live on your fix-list call.

Straight answers

Questions dispensary owners ask

Can my store advertise on Google or Meta?

In the US, no: both ban THC ads. In Canada, Meta bans them and Google allows only a limited Search pilot for licensed sellers that ends December 31, 2026. That's why we build what every licensed store can use all year: your Google profile, reviews, website, SEO and menu listings.

Will the age gate hurt my SEO?

It's built not to. The gate is laid over the page instead of blocking it or sending visitors to another page, as Google's guidance on mandatory age gates asks, so search engines read the same page your customers see. Your hours, address and phone are also on your Google profile, which has no gate.

How do reviews work for a cannabis store?

With one ask, the same for every customer: QR cards and a tap-to-review stand at your counter, with nothing offered in return and no pressure. In Canada, reviews stay on Google; your own site shows no stars or quotes, because the Cannabis Act bans testimonials.

Can an AI receptionist answer my store's phone?

Yes. It answers with your store's name, says it's an AI and that the call is recorded, asks every caller's age first, and handles hours, directions, ID rules, payment and what the live menu shows. It never gives product or health advice and sends no text messages; call summaries reach you by email.

Do you work with Weedmaps and Leafly?

Yes. We set up your Weedmaps listing with your menu and correct your Leafly listing, on your own accounts; any fees those platforms charge are billed to you directly. Local SEO every month keeps them current after that.

Can you text my customers?

No. Twilio bars cannabis businesses from texting in Canada and the US, whatever the message says, and other texting platforms restrict cannabis texts too. We build your list on email instead, age-checked and addressed to each subscriber by name.

What does it cost?

Each stage comes in three sizes, and your price is matched to your business on a short call or by email. You see it in writing on a one-page Order Form before you sign, and every monthly service is month to month.

Do you need my licence number?

Yes. We verify your licence with your regulator before we start, and we work only with licensed retailers. Your licence number goes on your site wherever your regulator requires it.

Is there a contract?

No long-term contract and no minimum term. You sign a one-page Order Form, every monthly service is month to month, and you can cancel any time by email before your next billing date. Your service runs to the end of the month you've already paid for.

Do Canadian businesses pay in Canadian dollars?

Yes. Canadian businesses are billed in C$ and US businesses in US$, at the price on your Order Form. No tax is added today; if we are required to register for GST/HST it is added from the date the law requires.

Your fix-list call · 15 to 30 minutes

See where your store shows up today.

15 to 30 minutes on video with one of our specialists. Nothing to prepare. You leave with a written fix list for your Google profile, your site and your listings, whether or not you hire us. Every monthly service is month to month, cancel any time.

Book my call

15 to 30 minutes on Google Meet.

What happens on the call
  1. We search for your store the way a customer would and show you who's above you.
  2. We go through your Google profile, your site and your menu listings against your market's rules.
  3. You get the written list, whether or not you hire us.
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