POT income NOT as HIGH as thought.

B.C.'s first round of tax revenue from legal cannabis is lower than the estimates written into the 2018/2019 budget.The province had estimated it would receive $200 million over three years. But provincial Finance Minister Carole James told reporters Wednesday the province has now built in $68 million over three years.

Study says B.C. pot smokers buy $500 million worth of marijuana each year.

A new study calculates British Columbians' pot purchases total about half a billion dollars each year, and the pro-legalization researchers conducting the study say that means the province could be bringing in massive tax revenues.

The price of marijuana and research that suggests more than 366,000 people in B.C. use pot to estimate the pot industry is worth between $443 million and $564 million a year.

Aurora Cannabis buys CanniMed in Canada's biggest deal

When pot was legalized in Canada on Oct. 17, 2018, there was just one B.C. Cannabis Store in the entire province, located in Kamloops at the Columbia Place Shopping Centre.