It seems the Godfather of Smoking Weed is quitting the habit, well at least the smoking part. Snoop Dogg has announced he’s giving up smoking marijuana, don’t worry he’s still going to consume it via editables and vaping.
In a post to his 82.5 million followers on Instagram Calvin Broadus, better known as Snoop Dogg, announced that “After much consideration & conversation with my family, I’ve decided to give up smoke. Please respect my privacy at this time.”
Snoop Dogg has an estimated net worth of $150 million, and has been an active investors in numerous companies including Klarna, Robinhood, MoonPay, Yuga Labs (the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs), a pot dispensary software company named Dutchie, a cannabis business loan provider named Bespoke Financial, and Snoop’s own media platform called Merry Jane. He’s also a co-founder of Casa Verde Capital, one of the first funds established to focus on the cannabis industry.
Snoop Dogg has created 19 studio albums, 15 collaborative albums, 17 compilation albums, 3 extended play albums, 25 mixtapes, and 175 singles. He has sold over 12.5 million albums in the United States, and 37 million albums worldwide. To top that off he’s had 14 Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
In February of 2022 Snoop Dogg bought Death Row Records (for a rumored $50 million, but not exact figures have been reported) from the private equity firm Blackstone’s MNRK Music Group, and later completed a deal to buy the label’s recordings catalog.
Now that Snoop Dogg is giving up smoking my hope is he can be an inspiration to the 28.3 million adults in the U.S. who still smoke. Cigarette smoking cost the U.S. more than $600 billion in 2018, including more than $240 billion in healthcare spending and nearly $372 billion in lost productivity.
So if Snoop Dogg, a man who built his career and reputation on smoking week can give up smoking, then there’s hope for those 28.3 million to stop smoking too.
Snoop Dogg says he is giving up marijuana – or at least, smoking it