Episode two of our World Cup cannabis series heads down the shore and into Philadelphia. The cheesesteak comes infused. The dispensary has a roll-up window. And the edible catches up with Ethan Zohn right on camera.
A dispensary with a roll-up window. A cheesesteak with THC in everything but the bread. A Survivor winner slowly realizing, on camera, that the edible has won. Episode two of Kicking Back went to Philadelphia, and it did not do anything halfway. Ethan Zohn started this series in Boston, where he grew up and smoked his first joint. This time he heads south, and the first stop is not the city at all. It is the shore.
Zohn heads to Cape May first, exit zero off the Parkway, to see Dave Christian. They go back more than twenty years. They met competing for last place on Eco-Challenge in the jungles of Fiji, then went on to harvest over a million pounds of hemp together in Vermont. Christian has since built Shore House Canna into the premier dispensary on the Jersey Shore, a place he calls a surf shop meets weed shop. The logic was simple. Every summer, Philadelphia empties onto the shore to escape the heat, and Christian wanted to be where the people were when they were celebrating.
The Shore Does Not Do Halfway Either
Inside, the tour runs through local product with local names. A pre-roll called the Cousin, a nod to the area’s favorite drink, infused with orange for a smooth burn. A Fernway vape christened the Travel Pro, easy and discreet. And then the one everybody keeps asking about. A pickle vape. Gimmick or revelation, depending on where you stand on pickles. Zohn stands firmly on pickles. The only thing he asked for at his own wedding, he says, …
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Author: High Times / High Times
