High Times sent Ethan Zohn across the country during the World Cup to find where soccer and cannabis collide. Episode one starts in Boston.
The World Cup is on American soil for the first time in a generation, and the country that spent decades calling it soccer is suddenly all in. High Times went looking for the part of that story the broadcast skips. The part where the world’s game meets weed.
That is the whole idea behind Kicking Back, a new eight-episode series hosted by Ethan Zohn. Zohn travels the country during the tournament, city by city, tracking down the people who live where soccer and cannabis overlap. The first episode is out now. It starts where it started for him. Boston.
Zohn is an odd and perfect guide for this. He played pro soccer as an undersized Division III goalkeeper, bouncing from the Cape Cod Crusaders to the Hawaii Tsunami to the Highlanders of Zimbabwe’s top flight. He won Survivor. He survived cancer. He came out the other side a cannabis advocate. In his own narration, “cannabis is moving from the shadows into the light,” and he is the rare person who can say that and mean it several ways at once.
A Boston Homecoming
Lexington is where Zohn grew up and made lifelong friends on the soccer fields. It is also, by his own telling, where he smoked his first joint. And it is where the country got going. The Battle Green, where the American Revolution kicked off 250 years ago, sits a short walk from the Belfry Tower steps where a teenage Zohn first lit up. The 1994 World Cup, played down the road in Foxboro, is the reason he chased the game at all.
From there, the episode runs like a block party with a …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
