A tiny Canadian cannabis company is now the proud owner of the stock symbol POT

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Until the start of last year, the Canadian stock ticker “POT” was held by Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, the world’s largest potash producer. Now, following a lottery of some 40-odd hopefuls, the trading symbol has been gifted to tiny Vancouver-based cannabis company Weekend Unlimited Inc., whose stock rose by almost 150% in the wake of their Friday (Feb. 1) win. Weekend Unlimited was doing quite well on the ticker front already: Before winning big last week, the company traded under the almost-as-buzzy YOLO (“you only live once”).