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The reason why musicians do not get arrested for smoking what looks to be ‘weed’ in their videos is interesting

It is the norm of the music video nowadays. If you are a high profile rapper and you are not smoking ‘weed’ in your videos then you are not as ‘gangsta’ as a rapper should be. It is common to see musicians blow off smoke from their mouths and indications suggest that they are usually smoking Marijuana.

The question has come up as to why these guys don’t get arrested when marijuana is illegal in some states? Some artists go great lengths to shoot a music video, which means that they can fly to another continent just to shoot a 4-minute video. It is difficult to miss a rapper smoking in his video unless he/she has never smoked before.

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