Choice" in which he used his experiences to dissuade others from following the same path. His efforts resulted in public recognition for his community service from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. O'Dea went on to become a television and film producer. His credits include the show Creepy Canada, which aired on the OLN and Destination America networks. In 2003, O'Dea's drug smuggling enterprise was featured on the television series Masterminds in an episode titled "A Smuggler Supreme". In 2006, O'Dea published a memoir, HIGH: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler. High was well-received, and was the winner of the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime Book. O'Dea narrated the 2009 documentary Hangman's Graveyard. In 2012, he appeared as Kevin O'Leary's advisor on the CBC Television Reality TV Show Redemption Inc. O'Dea told his story of smuggling drugs, getting caught, and changing his life in the September 27, 2012 "Trust Me" segment of the Snap Judgment radio show. With U.S. states and Canadian provinces legalizing recreational marijuana beginning in 2012, in recent years celebrities and business people desiring to market marijuana under their brand names, including Ghostface Killah and Kurupt have turned to O'Dea to broker arrangements between them, suppliers, and retailers. In 2018, O'Dea was reported to be living in Montecito, California, where he continued to work as a broker for legal marijuana entrepreneurs and his neighbors included Oprah Winfrey and Jeff Bridges. In January 2018, O'Dea and his family narrowly escaped a mudslide that inundated his hometown. His house was spared, but those of several neighbors sustained significant damage. In July 2021, O'Dea was a guest on the Crime & Entertainment podcast, during which he discussed his smuggling career and subsequent efforts to promote prison reform and reform of drug laws. In March 2022, he was a guest on the Black & White podcast hosted by author and diversity consultant Stephen Dorsey. During their discussion, O'Dea continued his advocacy of criminal justice reform and marijuana legalization. In the summer of 2022, O'Dea obtained financing for a film about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and traveled to Ukraine with photographer and videographer Frank Vilaca to document events in the war zone. Family In 1972, O'Dea married Eleanor "Ellie" O'Dea. They divorced in 1973, during his first prison term. While living in California in 1977, he married Suzi Foreman, with whom he had two children, daughter Cherokee and son Cheyenne.