Canadians used more pot in Q1, while legal market doubled: StatsCan

Canadians used more pot in Q1, while legal market doubled: StatsCan

Canadian cannabis usage increased in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period a year earlier following the legalization of recreational cannabis in October, while the number of people obtaining pot from legal sources more than doubled, according to Statistics Canada.

About 5.3 million or 18 per cent of Canadians aged 15 and older reported using cannabis in the last three months, according to StatsCan, which released its quarterly National Cannabis Survey on Thursday, the first to show Canada-wide results entirely in the post-legalization period. That is up from the 14 per cent of the country who reported using cannabis just one year earlier before legalization.

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