Among the bedrocks of modern life are these things: death, taxes, the Earth rotating around the sun and Snoop Dogg smoking pot.
Someone had better check on the sun because Snoop just announced that he's given up smoking.
Snoop posted the breaking news on social media. “After much consideration and conversation with my family, I’ve decided to give up smoke,” he wrote on Instagram and Twitter. “Please respect my privacy at this time.”
The post features a serious-looking picture of Snoop in black-and-white photo and a hand-written signature. The Hollywood Reporter noted he couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Reaction was swift, with hundreds of people signaling disbelief. "You mean smoking brisket?" one user wrote.
"This is probably just gonna be some viral campaign where he launches his own line of vapes or edibles or something," Dolan Dark responded, while many others noted that it isn't April Fools' Day.
The 50-year-old's name is synonomys with marijuana, and he once said he smokes 81 joints a day and has a personal blunt roller.
But he did signal in an interview this spring that he was reevaluating his health priorities after becoming a grandfather.
“Being a grandfather has changed me in multiple ways,” he told the Daily Mail in March. “The main way is being concerned with how I live, how I move, the kind of people I’m associated with, because I want to see my grandkids grow old. The only way I can do that is to take precautionary steps as far as how I move, who I hang out with, where I go out, my intake, what am I intaking. Am I doing extra-curricular or am I just doing what I’m supposed to be doing?”
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