Share of total sales,1 by type

Alcohol

Beer Wine Spirits Ciders and

coolers
34.9% 31.3% 25.8% 8.0%

Cannabis

Dried2 Inhaled Solid Ingested Beverages Other5

extracts3 edibles extracts4
71.1% 1.5% 1.3%
18.1% 4.1% 3.9%

Beer remains Canada’s drink of choice, Total alcohol sales in Canada

while dried cannabis is preferred. were $26 billion, six and
a half times more than the
Alcohol sales totalled $850 $4 billion in legal sales
and cannabis sales were $131 of non-medical cannabis.
per person of legal age6 in Canada.

Governments earned7
$443 from the sale
Sales of alcohol versus cannabis per person of alcoholic beverages
of legal age,6 by province and territory and $51 from the
sale of cannabis
products per person
of legal age.
$1,216 Y.T.

$291
N.W.T. $696
$1,622 Nvt.
X8
X8 $1,137
B.C.
$147
Alta.
$919 N.L.
$797 Sask. Man.

$137 $746 $801 $880 Que.

$210 Ont. $685 P.E.I.
$185 $89
$107 $825 $126 $165
$804
1. Includes sales of legal, non-medical products only. $881 N.S.
2. Includes pre-rolled products.
3. Includes products intended for inhalation, such as vape pens, hash, wax and rosin. N.B. $130
4. Includes products intended for ingestion, such as tinctures, capsules, softgels and sprays. $125
5. Includes topicals, seeds and other cannabis products not classified elsewhere.
6. Sales per person are calculated by dividing the total sales of alcohol or cannabis by the population of legal age.
7. Net income of liquor and cannabis authorities and other government revenue from the control and sale of
alcoholic beverages and cannabis.
8. Suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act. © His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Industry, 2023
Source: Statistics Canada, Control and sale of alcoholic beverages and cannabis, April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. Catalogue number: 11-627-M | ISBN: 978-0-660-47594-3

www.statcan.gc.ca