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

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 statementemailed 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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