Snoop Dogg's Business Empire Harvests Green From Marijuana Legalization Trend

Few individuals have had more of a prominent stature in marijuana culture than rapper Snoop Dogg. And to understand how far pop culture has come in demystifying pot, one has to look at the rapper’s career.

The Long Beach-bred Dogg took the music world by storm in 1993, teaming with mega-producer Dr. Dre on the smash hit rap album “Doggystyle,” which brought gangsta rap into the homes of millions of white kids. As his music career was skyrocketing, he capitalized on his charisma and appeared in feature films, including “Training Day,” “Baby Boy,” “Bones,” “Old School,” “Starsky & Hutch,” in which he stole the show from his more seasoned co-stars as Huggy Bear, and “Soul Plane,” a comedy centered on getting high on weed and in the sky.

He and domestic doyenne Martha Stewart are now readying a cooking show to debut in the fall on VH1.

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