True Patriot Love - May 06, 2026


Ryan Wedding： Snowboarder to Dealer


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

176.13

Word count

180

Sentence count

7


Summary

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Ryan Wedding was a snowboarder and Olympic medalist who was found guilty of drug charges related to marijuana possession and distribution in 2009. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but served less than 3 years of his sentence.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Jumping into the Ryan Wedding Iranian piece, yeah, my assessment, and I'm working more and more on writing about Ryan Wedding and what his case means to Canada, my strong assessment is that, you know, he was in his athletic career, in his snowboarding, he very likely sort of got into the marijuana culture in British Columbia in his high school days.
00:00:22.140 you know, he was obviously an amazingly talented athlete, but he was also a BC boy. And, you know,
00:00:29.520 it's not a big stretch for snowboarders to be involved in the marijuana culture. And as he sort
00:00:36.320 of started to phase out of his athletic career, you know, after appearing in the Olympics,
00:00:41.960 maybe even before, he did get into marijuana dealing. He went to jail. And when he was in jail,
00:00:48.440 At that point, he had dabbled, I believe, in cocaine.
00:00:52.180 He got, you know, he got done down in the United States,
00:00:55.240 which is the worst thing for a Canadian drug deal to happen
00:00:58.040 because it's pretty difficult for them to get caught in Canada.