On Thursday November 16, Snoop Dogg created a surprise by posting a photo of himself on Instagram with his hands clasped, accompanied by a surprising message suggesting that he had stopped smoking joints . Why did Snoop stop smoking? Our theories… smoking or not.
“After much consideration and discussion with my family, I have decided to quit smoking. Please respect my privacy in this moment”. Posted yesterday, Thursday November 16, on his Instagram account and on X (Ex-Twitter) the Dogg’s message, embedded on a photograph of himself showing him with his hands clasped, announces that the Californian rapper has decided to stop smoking cannabis. A bad move for his regular reefer-roller… 
It looked like an April Fool’s joke, butthe next day, the rapper with his legendary phlegm added another layer. On Insta, Snoop posted a selfie flanked by the same message (only shorter):“Respect my privacy”.
What does this mean?
That Snoop has (temporarily) stopped using cannabis?
Possibly: he’s already done so on several occasions and opened up about it 7 years ago on the TV show Kocktails with Khloe Kardashian . Yes, the West Coast’s most famous smoker has quit ganja every time he’s coached kids in the Snoop Youth Football League, an American soccer league he created.
“And I had to control myself. I stopped smoking from that day on, for 180 days in a row. It made me a better coach, a better person. Every year, when I coach soccer for the kids, I don’t smoke. That’s three months out of the year. “said the artist, who has just turned 52, in 2016.
That he stops smoking but reserves the right to vapourize?
Snoop has partnered with Ispire and Hempacco for the North American launch of “Dogg Lbs”, a line of THC vape-pens. And Dogg is known to be a good publicist and a great jokester.
That he’ll stop smoking to heal his lungs and start making space-cakes and edibles?
It’s also very likely that a recent post on his Instagram account, which went live at 7:00 pm (French time) today, shows him promoting Goon with the Spoon, a cannabis cookbook.
While fans are in a state of shock and the media don’t know how to handle the news, the most important thing to remember about this big buzz is that Snoop Dogg has pulled off a brilliant publicity stunt that will have smoked out more than one newsroom.
