Snoop Dogg is defending his decision to smoke weed with his 18-year-old son Corde. "What better way to [learn] than from the master?" he asks.

Snoop tells The Hollywood Reporter he considers it good parenting. "My kids can do whatever the hell they want. For me to say otherwise would be hypocritical. A lot of [fathers] don’t have a relationship with their kids, and that’s when they get on drugs and have suicidal thoughts and drive drunk. Me and my son is mellow. I’m his father, so I wanna show him the proper way, because he looks up to me."

Snoop thinks the entire nation would benefit from legalizing marijuana. "There would be less high-speed chases, less robberies, less crime," explains Snoop. “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 chronic.”