Cannabis across Canada: A province-by-province look at usage, costs and the future
How much has been sold?
Quebec leads the country in non-prescription sales, with $24.7 million recorded as of the end of 2018. However, medicinal marijuana use in Quebec is very limited – meaning the province only accounts for 6.2 per cent of the total national sales figure.The low uptake of medicinal marijuana may help explain why StatCan found Quebec to have the lowest cannabis consumption rate of any province, at 13.6 per cent.
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