Platinum in Cannabis — Our Third Straight Community Votes London Win
Cannabis Link won Platinum in the Cannabis category at the 2025 Community Votes London Awards. It's our third consecutive win after taking the same category in 2023 and 2024. The announcement landed in September 2025 on the Community Votes London leaderboard (published at london.communityvotes.com/2025/09/retail-stores/cannabis), confirming what the previous two years already told us: Londoners pick Cannabis Link when they pick their dispensary.
This year carries extra weight. Platinum is the top tier at Community Votes, one step above the Gold we'd taken twice before. It's a thank-you from the community we didn't see coming, and we don't take it lightly.
If you're new to Community Votes London, it's a city-wide awards program where residents nominate and vote for the local businesses they actually use. The 2025 campaign received more than 8,000 nominations across every category. Only the top finishers in each category moved to the final voting round. Cannabis was ours, by public vote.
What Platinum Means
Community Votes assigns four tiers to every category: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Each tier reflects where a business placed against others in the same category during public voting. Platinum is the top of the stack. It's awarded to the single business that led the category in votes cast by community members during the campaign.
The progression matters because it's not something you can lobby for or buy. Votes come directly from people who walked into the stores, ordered delivery, asked questions at the counter, and decided afterward that we'd earned their pick. For Cannabis Link, going from Community Votes winner in 2023 and 2024 to Platinum in 2025 shows we're still improving — not coasting.
What Three Straight Wins Says About Cannabis Link
Three consecutive Community Votes London wins (2023, 2024, and now 2025 Platinum) isn't luck. It's the stacked result of decisions we've made across every store and every shift since we opened our first London location. Here's the record behind the votes:
- Six London locations — more than any other dispensary chain in the city. Hyde Park Square, Sherwood Forest Mall, Huron & Highbury, Westmount on Commissioners Road, Express on Western Road near Western University, and Springbank Drive. A Cannabis Link is within ten minutes of most London neighborhoods.
- CannSell-certified budtenders at every store. Everyone behind our counters completes the Ontario CannSell Standard certification. Most of our team has also completed supplementary training on terpenes, product formats, and medical-use guidance. Walk in, ask a real question, get a specific answer.
- Same-day cannabis delivery out of our Westmount hub. Free delivery on every order within London city limits — no delivery fees — with a $29.99 minimum order. Order before 6 PM and it typically reaches your door the same day.
- Daily deals that stack. Student Monday 10% off with valid ID. Senior Tuesday for anyone 55+. Veterans and first responders get 10% off every single day. Members of Link Loyalty earn bonus points during Happy Hour on Thursdays and Saturdays, 12–3 PM.
- Open 9 AM – 11 PM at five of six stores, every day of the year. Western Road Express runs seasonal hours aligned with the Western University academic calendar. Statutory holidays are typically 11 AM – 7 PM — if Ontario law lets us open, we're open.
Thank You, London
Real talk: we're a London-based chain, not a national one. The people who voted Cannabis Link Platinum in 2025 are the same ones who asked our Hyde Park budtender about edible dosing for their mom's chronic pain, grabbed a pre-roll at Springbank on the way home from work, or phoned Westmount at 10:45 PM to check if their delivery driver was close. That's the work that won this award.
To every customer who cast a vote in the 2025 Community Votes London campaign — thank you. You didn't have to. You did anyway. That's what we carry with us into 2026.
What's Next for Cannabis Link in 2026
Winning Platinum is a milestone, not a finish line. Here's what we're building toward this year so our fourth win earns itself:
- Broader product mix. We're expanding shelf space for craft flower from BC and small-batch Ontario growers. If you've been asking budtenders about a specific brand we didn't carry, keep asking — we're listening.
- Faster delivery windows from Westmount. We're testing 2-hour delivery targets for most London addresses. More updates once operations lock in.
- Deeper community presence. Watch for Cannabis Link sponsorships at Forest City events, local music and sports programming, and Western University partnerships anchored by our Express location on Western Road.
- Live inventory on every product page. Our site now shows live per-store stock so you know exactly where to go before driving across town. Smarter availability tools rolling out throughout the year.
Come Celebrate With Us
The award belongs to Londoners, so the celebration does too. Stop by any of our 6 stores this month. Browse the current menu online, check today's deals before your next pickup, or order same-day delivery from Westmount and have something good show up at your door.
Three straight wins. Platinum in 2025. Thank you, London. Let's do it again in 2026.