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Canadians finally know what they will have to pay for legal recreational cannabis, as provincially controlled online stores opened for business Wednesday, charging between $5.87 and $17.50 per gram for the newly legalized drug.

Those prices varied depending on the strain, brand and province, and included excise taxes, but not sales tax and shipping fees, which pushed many orders above $20 per gram.

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The most expensive legal gram of cannabis was in the Northwest Territories, at $17.50. The territory sells weed through its liquor stores, which currently only offer five brands to choose from.

The cheapest weed is being sold in Newfoundland and Labrador: according to product offerings on the provincial online cannabis store, a gram of dried flower sold by Eve & Co., which goes by the brand name The Advocate, can be bought at between $5.87 and $6.89 per gram. This specific strain contains between 15 to 23 per cent of THC, and 0 to 1 per cent of CBD.