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Islanders have bought over $7M worth of pot since legalization

In the first six months of marijuana legalization, P.E.I. Cannabis is reporting sales of $7,077,150. 

Marijuana bringing in the green

Sara Fraser · CBC News ·
Islanders bought more than $7 million worth of pot since it was legalized last October. (Jane Robertson/CBC)

P.E.I. Cannabis is reporting sales of $7,077,150 between Oct. 17, 2018 and March 31, 2019. 

The total dried cannabis equivalent sold was 704,032 grams, the government agency said in a statement emailed to CBC News.

The numbers would indicate that sales have cooled slightly since legalization — Statistics Canada reported in January that at $2.1 million, P.E.I. had the highest per-capita sales in the country in the first six weeks of legalization.

That's almost $59 for every Islander over age 19. 

Saturday will be the first 4/20 since recreational marijuana was legalized in Canada on Oct. 17. 

4/20 has been celebrated for decades on April 20. It was code for pot, or pot smoking, coined by a group of high school students in San Francisco in the 1970s.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sara Fraser

Web Journalist

Sara has worked with CBC News in P.E.I. since 1988, starting with television and radio before moving to the digital news team. She grew up on the Island and has a journalism degree from the University of King's College in Halifax. Reach her by email at sara.fraser@cbc.ca.

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