Pace Radio Show

Tonight 8pmET Guest author and writer Jon Hiltz with Joint Host Kim CooperJon returns to the program just as he releases his new book "The Wild West:Canada's Legalization of Marijuana" and Kim wants to find out all about it."A journalist and Director of Business Development for Canadian Licensed Producer, Indiva, gives an insider’s perspective on what went on during the free-for-all of preparing for marijuana legalization in Canada.During the year and a half it took to legalize cannabis in Canada, alarming reports of dangerous activities in the legal grey area of marijuana sales were all too familiar. While many waited to see how the things would turn out, licensed producers got bigger and started distributing pot to countries around the world.Domestically, illegal dispensaries popped up in every major Canadian city, with law enforcement cracking down on all of them except in Vancouver and Victoria.Not many know all the inside details on the laboured birth of cannabis legalization in Canada. This book will ch