Weed-smoking Snoop Dogg 'angered Muslim guests by stinking out entire floor of a five-star London hotel' days before he left for the Olympics
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American rapper and Olympic sideline reporter Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. has been accused of using a Class B drug in London, which is to say that Snoop Dogg smoked some weed.
While that's hardly news in America, where marijuana is legalized depending on your location, it is an issue in the United Kingdom, where cannabis use carries a sentence of up to five years in prison and an undisclosed fine.
Snoop and his guests allegedly stunk up the Mandarin Hotel south of Hyde Park in London, where several Muslim guests 'went ballistic' over the powerful aroma wafting through the century-old building, according to Radar Online.
Although the Quran does not forbid marijuana, many major Shia and Sunni scholars have likened it to khamr (intoxicants or an alcoholic drink) and have banned the drug as a result.
'Snoop doesn't let anything stop his daily doses of weed – not even Britain's laws,' one source said of the 52-year-old rapper and former gang member.
Snoop gestures during the men's skateboarding park finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The facade of The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park on January 9, 2008 in London
'He sparked up while he was holed up at the Mandarin just before he headed to Paris for his Olympics sponsorship deal.
'The problem is the hotel is a mecca for very clean-living businessmen who stick to the religious laws of Islam by the letter.
'They don't drink, they certainly don't do drugs – and many of them don't even drink caffeine.'
Somehow, Snoop managed to avoid any consequences for his pot use.
'It's unbelievable Snoop was able to get away with this in not only a country where cannabis for non-medicinal purposes is prohibited, never mind in a hotel that caters for clientele including very rich Muslim businessmen who despise weed,' the source told Radar Online.
'But they didn't let it go – they kicked off with hotel management, but Snoop didn't seem to get the message as he even sauntered out of the hotel lobby with what seemed to be a brown blunt in his mouth.'
Snoop performs with what appears to be a blunt during a 2023 concert in Glasgow
Rapper Snoop Dogg in a Pasadena Superior Court in 2007 on gun and drug charges
Radar Online has not received a response from Snoop's representatives.
After London, Snoop went to Paris for his NBC Sports duties, for which he earned a reported $10 million.
This is not the first time Snoop has been accused of drug possesson.
He was arrested in 1989 in his native California for cocaine possession, and later faced accustions of illegal gun possession and even murder.
While Broadus pleaded guilty to possession of a handgun, he was acquitted in the shooting death of Philip Woldermariam in 1996 after being represented by OJ Simpson's former attorney, Johnnie Cochran.
