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The pot-shop lottery winners who plan to open a store in the ByWard Market have signed a deal that allows them to sell out to a retail chain for stocks currently worth more than $1 million.

The deal between lottery winners known as “Patterson and Lavoie” and cannabis-store chain Fire & Flower gives an indication of how valuable the province’s first cannabis shops may be.

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The winners of a lottery held to determine who could apply for the first 25 cannabis shop licences in Ontario were widely considered to have been given a golden ticket.

They will have the bricks-and-mortar pot retailing market in Canada’s most populous province to themselves — for a few months, anyway. The province is temporarily limiting the number of stores because of a cannabis shortage.

Lottery winners must own and control the shops themselves, but some have partnered with other companies to help.

Fire & Flower made licensing and branding deals with the lottery winners proposing stores on York Street in Ottawa and on Brock Street in Kingston.