Snoop Dogg is smoking a blunt on Twitch, won’t be banned thanks to California’s pot laws
Twitch’s terms of service and community guidelines dictating how casters stream while casting can be confusing, especially where drugs are concerned.
Those rules came into question this afternoon when Snoop Dogg began smoking a blunt while streaming a promotional game, SOS, a game currently in early access. Snoop’s stream, which hovered around 80,000 viewers, didn’t get pulled down by Twitch administrators.
Up until Jan. 1, 2018, Snoop’s stream could have been in violation of Twitch’s standards because there’s no way to ensure it was purchased legally and you can’t prove it’s being used for medicinal purposes. On Jan. 1, however, the sale of recreational marijuana became legal in California. That means Snoop is smoking a drug he could have purchased legally, and he is abiding by the applicable laws set in place by the state of California. Although recreational marijuana became legal on Nov. 8, 2016, it wasn’t until Jan. 1 that dispensaries were able to start legally selling marijuana.
A Twitch representative told Polygon that “because legality varies from Country to Country and State to State, we encourage people to follow their local laws.”