Snoop Dogg won't be able to visit Norway for the next two years. The rapper is denied entry to the country after he was busted for carrying eight grams of marijuana in his luggage while on his way to a music festival last month.
At first it seemed as though Snoop was getting off with a slap on the wrist: arriving in Kristiansand for a gig at Hovefestivalen with eight grams of marijuana and an excess of cash, Snoop was fined 52,000kr (£5,500). Despite the sniffer-dog bust, the 40-year-old was allowed to go on and play the music festival, from which he tweeted updates about getting high: "Smoking crip n. cuzns," he wrote. "Hahahahagahhaha."
But Norwegian officials have had the last laugh.
According to the Associated Press, Snoop has been barred from returning to the country for the next 24 months. He will not be filing an appeal, his lawyer said. "[Snoop] can live with the decision."
Snoop Dogg's affection for cannabis is well-documented, but his fondness
for the drug has often landed him in hot water. In December last year,
the rapper was sued by a Lebanese concert promoter for allegedly smoking weed in a Middle East club in 2009, and he was also arrested in Texas
in January of this year after authorities searched his tour bus and
found three prescription bottles filled with marijuana cigarettes.
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