Naturally, it felt proper for this reporter to remind the Doggfather that Amsterdam recently enacted a law prohibiting ease of access to tourists looking to smoke in the city’s coffeeshops. “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.” What would America look like then? “There would be less high-speed chases, less robberies, less crime,” he says. Still, he hopes to see the drug fully - and federally - legalized in his lifetime. For the record, Snoop, a California resident, is a proud holder of what he calls “a platinum medical marijuana card” - though, to be sure, most of his green is gifted. His new project Reincarnated, a film and album due out in 2013, the hip-hop legend travels to the plant’s adopted homeland and documents his life-changing experience out of which he emerged Snoop Lion. Like Bob Marley and Willie Nelson, Snoop is a stoner symbol who has long espoused marijuana’s positive uses as they pertain to health, creativity and recreation, even on the heels of being busted - eight times and counting, most recently in Norway in June (he’s been banned from entering the country for two years) and, before that, in Sierra Blanca, Texas, the same spot where Fiona Apple was arrested for hashish possession Sept. PHOTOS: Snoop Dogg: His Life and Career in Pictures I’m his father, so I wanna show him the proper way because he looks up to me.” 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. “For me to say otherwise would be hypocritical. “My kids can do whatever the hell they want,” he explains of his parenting philosophy.

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