The untold story of the $131-billion Canadian cannabis blow out.
Canopy Growth founder Bruce Linton didn’t invent marijuana, but he figured out how to turn a Canadian start-up selling the stuff into a $22-billion international buzz. Catch a Fire goes behind the scenes of Justin Trudeau’s legalization gambit and the stoned pioneering lawyers who helped make weed gummies more valuable than US Steel. From the dope dealers of the 1960s to the never-before-told bribery accusations during Covid-19, cannabis historian Ben Kaplan speaks with the dealers, stealers, and renegade freaks who made and then lost money with the combined chutzpah of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Sam Bankman-Fried.
This is the definitive history of a massive societal change — and a great boom and bust.
- ISBN10 1459754654
- ISBN13 9781459754652
- Publish Date 27 March 2025 (first published 14 January 2025)
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Dundurn Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English