Snoop Dogg to W.H.: Legalize pot (Politico)

Lots of celebrities want to meet the president and they often come with their own pet requests: Sign this or that, take a picture with my kid, how can I steal a hand towel from a White House bathroom?

But Snoop Dogg wants something different. The rapper (real name: Calvin Broadus) has been a longtime advocate for the legalization of marijuana (and a frequent user of it) and spoke to Hot 99.5?s Toby Knapp about the subject and how he might convince President Barack Obama to support a change in the country?s drug laws.

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?Before I even said ?Hi? to President Obama, I would change the aroma of the room.?And then we could start conversing after we had that aroma change. You know what I?m talking about?? (transcript via Jezebel).

Snoop also proposed to have rapper Wiz Khalifa do the same, adding, ?They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that?s used for purposes of cataracts??

Obama is opposed to the legalization of marijuana.

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