{"id":279,"date":"2023-11-19T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T12:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2023-11-19T12:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T12:19:22","slug":"snoop-dogg-quits-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/snoop-dogg-quits-smoking","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg\u2019s shocking announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A jaw dropping decision he had to take after \u201cmuch consideration and conversation with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salt and pepper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peanut butter and jelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guns and ammo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pears and cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dogs and fleas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eggs and bacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas and pine trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marijuana and Snoo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a radio was somewhere rapping \u201c&#8230;blaze it up, &#8216;sup, Snoop?\u201d more than a hundred million jaws had dropped last Thursday morning as Snoop Dogg <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnoopDogg\/status\/1725196796618817785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> on his X profile that he was \u201cgiving up smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m giving up smoke. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DDVl9Syixw\">pic.twitter.com\/DDVl9Syixw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnoopDogg\/status\/1725196796618817785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDamn, the world is really really coming to an end,\u201d one fan had immediately commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of comments had followed, and to answer another startled fan; it definitely wasn\u2019t on the first of April that Snoop Dogg had stunned the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long, well-documented love relationship between the rapper and what \u201cmakes him feel the way he needs to feel\u201d, it seems, had suddenly lost its flame\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter much consideration and conversation with my family, I\u2019ve decided to give up smoke,\u201d the 52-year-old music icon wrote on a black and white X post &#8211; putting his ringed fingers together as though he was praying, without giving into many details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like Snoop Dogg\u2019s family had been involved in both, the end, and the beginning of the singer\u2019s legendary relationship to marijuana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 2008, Snoop told Esquire that he had first tried marijuana with one of his uncles in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun fact: he was born in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And with a dry \u201cplease respect my privacy at this time,\u201d he finished his written announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA Dogg\u2019s gotta do what a Dogg\u2019s gotta do,\u201d tweeted a cannabis news reporter of High Times Magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the million opinions of his fans ranged from support, criticism to mockery, some view the whole move as a premeditated step to start a new profitable business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is probably just gonna be some viral campaign where he launches his own line of vapes or edibles or something,\u201d wrote a skeptical fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But to give Snoop a little credit, this announcement, as shocking as it may seem to his fans today, didn&#8217;t come out of \u201ccomplete\u201d blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2022, he told the MailOnline that becoming a grandfather had made him question his weed consumption habits and that he was actively trying to moderate his intake after becoming a grandfather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing a grandfather has changed me in multiple ways,\u201d Snoop said. \u2018The main way is being concerned with how I live, how I move, the kind of people I\u2019m associated with, because I want to see my grandkids grow old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAm I doing extra-curricular or am I just doing what I\u2019m supposed to be doing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moral of the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever circumstances are pushing Snoopy to quit smoking, he is certainly setting a great example to everyone who is currently struggling to overcome an addiction or any sort of hardships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snoop Dogg shocks the world with this announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}