One of the first members of Rob Ford’s campaign team is the co-host of an online marijuana show, High F---ers, in which he smokes joints until he vomits, tells profane stories while high, and dedicates his drug use to Ford.

“In honour of Rob Ford, I think we should smoke the ‘green crack’ kush today,” actor Sam Tarasco, best known for his role on the show Trailer Park Boys, said at the beginning of the second episode.

Ford, who is asking voters to look past his own drug use, announced Tuesday that Tarasco and disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson will be working on his campaign, playing “a lot of roles.”

Ford’s choice of associates has been criticized by rival John Tory, among others, and he was asked about the wisdom of teaming with an athlete famous for his use of banned substances. He was not asked about Tarasco’s open toking, which is hidden behind a web paywall — $4.20 per month, a cannabis reference.

High F---ers appears on the website Swearnet, the online home of the Trailer Park Boys. Tarasco plays the character Sam Losco in the Boys' signature television comedy. On the marijuana show, he speaks as himself.

“The purpose of this f---ing program is going to be to educate, to inform — and really just an excuse for me to get f---ing high with my buddy,” Tarasco said in the pilot. He did not respond to the Star’s request for comment.

In the second episode, Tarasco said he has arthritis in his knees. In the third, in which he vomited on camera after overindulging, he said he usually smokes less, to deal with elbow and eye pain.

“The cannabis helps me feel better. But I don’t go to this f---ing extreme because that’s not the purpose of it for me,” he said. “This is for your f---ing benefits out there, so you guys can see how f---ed it is for somebody who shouldn’t be doing this to do it. So if I f---ing puke, I puke, I guess.”

Tarasco called himself a “heavy” user in the pilot, and told a rambling story about being so impaired he spoke “like a retard.” He mimicked the Jamaican accent of a man he had interacted with in that state; Ford has twice been heard in public this year using a Jamaican accent.

Ford said in August that he has smoked “a lot” of marijuana. He did not say when. He spoke favourably of decriminalization in January before quickly backtracking and saying it was a federal issue.

During the police investigation of Ford, a former aide told investigators that a joint was found in Ford’s desk drawer at city hall. Another former aide said Ford had offered his girlfriend a joint, then lit up himself. Neither allegation has been proven in court.

The second episode of High F---ers appears to have been filmed in early November, just after Ford confessed he had tried crack cocaine. When Tarasco suggested they smoke “green crack” cannabis as a tribute to Ford, co-host Amy Anonymous, an advocate and expert, explained that a magazine changed the name of the strain to “green fluffy bunnies.”

“‘Green crack’ is really offensive,” she said. “Especially for people who medicate with cannabis and not crack — crack is an offensive word, whether you like to think that or not. So in order to make it less offensive, they called it green fluffy bunnies.”

Later, Tarasco said, while high: “Let me tell you a Ford story. I’ll tell you two Ford stories. Here’s my first Ford story.

“My mother f---ing loves Rob Ford. Why? Because I’m from Etobicoke, and he’s a neighbourhood kid. And she would (see him) knocking on the door and campaigning, and he was a good boy. He was always a good boy. He used to help coach the football. And I would go, ‘What about all the stuff that’s happening?’ ‘Ah, is he working hard? Is he stealing any money — no. I’d vote for him again.’ That’s what my mother says.

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“That’s one Rob Ford story. And I totally f---ing totally forgot the other Rob Ford story. F---! F---. I’m going to think of it.”

He never did.