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Ontario Cannabis Store says it had 100,000 online sales in first 24 hours of legalization

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The Ontario Cannabis Store says it has received about 100,000 online orders in the first 24 hours that marijuana was legal in Canada.

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The government-run OCS says 12,000 of those orders came within the first hour after legalization Wednesday morning.

Ontario will have no brick-and-mortar cannabis stores until April 1, 2019, with the only legal retailer being a provincial government-run online store.

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The OCS says the website launch has gone off without service interruptions and has seen more than 1.3 million unique visitors in the first 24 hours of operations.

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It says customers started to receive marijuana orders on Thursday.

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OCS president Patrick Ford says he is amazed by the volume of sales.

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