First legal purchase of cannabis made in Newfoundland and Labrador

One of the first customers to buy legal recreational cannabis in Canada has said that he had no intention of smoking, vaping or otherwise consuming the gram of weed he bought at a store in St. John’s. Ian Power, who was first in line at one of several stores in the country’s easternmost province that opened just after midnight local time on Octobr 17^th , said that he plans to frame his purchase. Hundreds of customers were lined up around the block at the private store on Water Street, the main commercial drag in the Newfoundland and Labrador capital, by the time the clock struck midnight.

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians were also the first to buy products such as dried flower and oils online after ShopCannabisNL.com launched at midnight local time, ahead of its provincial and territorial counterparts by at least a half hour.

The historic sales made Canada one of the few countries globally to regulate and legalize marijuana for adult use, and the largest nation with a national marketplace for legal pot.