Snoop Dogg Defends Pics of Smoking Marijuana With Son
by | Sept. 29, 2012 at 10:35 a.m.

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This last week, pictures emerged of rapper Snoop Dogg smoking the stickiest of icky with his son, Corde Calvin Broadus. But these weren’t leaked pictures from a friend’s cellphone or snapped by paparazzi – the young Broadus himself tweeted them from his account, @SpankyDanky.

Snoop Dogg, who just this year, released a book printed on rolling papers, defended it, asking in a Hollywood Reporter cover story “What better way to [learn] than from the master?” The pictures show Broadus and son smoking together, and even one of Corde lighting his father’s two-foot bong.

Snoop continued:

My kids can do whatever the hell they want. For me to say otherwise would be hypocritical. A lot of motherf***ers don’t have a relationship with their kids, and that’s when they get on drugs and have suicidal thoughts and drive drunk. Me and my son is mellow. I’m his father, so I wanna show him the proper way because he looks up to me.

You could say that Spanky Danky looks up to old man Snoop: Corde was somewhat of a hot football prospect, being headhunted by multiple universities, and allegedly rejected a possible college football scholarship to pursue his hip hop career.

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The marijuana-while-parenting topic comes up from time to time, but usually with moms “taking the edge off,” not with dudes like, well, the guy to the right. Nonetheless, this issue is alive and well. Is Snoop Dogg right? Does smoking marijuana with your kid make the parent-kid relationship better? Or are you sending the wrong message?

While some sites declare Snoop the “coolest father ever,” and others question his parenting skills, he offers his take on legalization:

Go to Amsterdam or the Netherlands, where it is legal, and you see that the crime rate is nonexistent, the murder rate is probably under 10 percent, people learn to get along! There are people riding on bicycles being happy and it’s because of the environment that’s provided by the legalization of marijuana.

8BitDad attempted to contact hologram-Tupac for comment but he could not be reached.

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  • http://www.bloggerfather.com/ BloggerFather

    That’s OK. The same people who complain about this guy ruining his kid wouldn’t piss on that kid’s car if it were on fire.

    • http://www.8bitdad.com Zach Rosenberg

      Very true.

  • http://www.daddymojo.net/ Trey Burley

    If that kid weren’t a rich/famous person then they’d be in DFCS now. It is his right to raise his son as he sees fit. Bottom line: Is Snoop wasn’t rich, we’d be calling him out for being a bad parent. I’m libertarian about drugs, but be ready for the costs or responsibilities that come from using them.

    • http://www.8bitdad.com Zach Rosenberg

      Very good points. I actually worked for a marijuana legislation magazine/website, so I learned a lot about it – but I don’t know if I’d be letting my kid smoke it (and really didn’t do so myself).

  • http://twitter.com/kevinsky Kevin A

    It reminds me of the Alcohol discussion. We have this unnaturally late drinking age (and yours is worse than ours!) and make it a big taboo until suddenly it’s not a taboo.
    I started having the occasional beer with my dad at around age 16. Maybe 15.
    When all my friends hit their 19th birthday, they had to do the typical alcohol-soaked rite of passage, because suddenly they could drink and nobody could tell them they couldn’t. When I turned 19, we went out for drinks but I didn’t go apeshit like they did, because I’d learned to enjoy alcohol responsibly under my dad’s guidance. It just wasn’t a big deal.

    Same with Marijuana. I don’t use it (I seem to be allergic to it: don’t ask) but I don’t think it should be illegal. It hardly is illegal here anyway, minor possession is mildly worse than a speeding ticket. If my son wants to enjoy pot when he’s older, I won’t be bothered by it, and I’m sure his uncles will show him how to avoid abusing it.

    If we can guide them to use the internet, a car, a gun, or a vote responsibly, then surely we can guide them to use alcohol and pot responsibly

    • http://www.8bitdad.com Zach Rosenberg

      I think you’re onto something – the idea that there shouldn’t be taboo things in parenthood where we just throw our hands up and say “well you just can’t and I don’t have a reason.” If a father has a reason to say “no, this is bad” then sure, that’s fine. But restricting just to restrict is odd.