Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has no intention of using marijuana.
But on his way into a meeting on Parliament Hill this morning, Trudeau was talking up the merits of his government's legislation that legalized the recreational use of pot at midnight.
The latest numbers suggest there's considerable demand for cannabis products across the country.
Shopify, which is powering many of the provincial online stores, says it is seeing more than 100 cannabis orders per minute.
The government announced this morning that it will also introduce a bill soon to make it faster to obtain a criminal pardon for past simple pot possession convictions and do away with the 631-dollar fee.
Trudeau says pot laws had to change before the government could move ahead on the pardon issue