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Legal pot is stuffing more Yuletide stockings in Alberta than most other provinces, says an industry survey.

In Canada’s first legalized cannabis Christmas, 12 per cent of adults in Alberta will be giving pot as a gift this month, says an online poll conducted for marketing outfit Lift & Co. that canvassed 1,512 adults across the country on Dec. 5.

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The results were similar for Manitoba, which, along with Alberta, leads the country in the number of cannabis retail stores, with 16 and 65 locations licensed respectively.

Quebecers, at eight per cent, are the least likely to offer a pot present Dec. 25.

Twenty per cent of Millennials — those aged 18 to 34 — said they’d be purchasing a marijuana gift, by far the most likely demographic to do so, said the poll.

Those results might also be a reflection of Alberta having the most medical marijuana patients per capita in the country, said Matei Olaru of Lift & Co.