The city of Lethbridge, Canada is considering tightening the rules for concert performers at the city-owned Enmax Centre, after Snoop Dogg allegedly smoked marijuana on stage at one of his recent performances.
The agenda to tighten rules on performers erupted up after the city, which is the fourth largest in the province of Alberta, received complaints about Snoop Dogg's conduct during a concert in January.
Snoop allegedly smoked marijuana on stage while encouraging the audience to do the same.
According to Bob Tarleck, mayor of Lethbridge, Snoop Dogg's lack of respect, not just his alleged drug use, is at issue.
"We saw it as a real affront to our community," Tarleck told CBC News. "We saw that as a group of entertainers who thought that they could come in and just ignore - totally ignore - the rules of our community."
The city council of Lethbridge proposed guidelines that would require a monetary performance bond from all performers and acts in order to perform.
Performers would have to leave a deposit with the city and behave well on stage in order to get that money back.
Tarleck said Snoop Dogg would be welcomed back in Lethbridge as long as he obeys the law.
The city's proposal comes on the heels of Australia banning Snoop Dogg from the country, forcing him to miss a scheduled appearance at the Australian MTV Music Awards.
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said that Snoop failed to meet the guidelines of the country's character test, which takes criminal convictions into account before a person is allowed into the country.
Snoop pleaded contest to gun and drug charges in the U.S. this month. He was also denied entry into the U.K. in May.
Posted By: Jimmy Jones
Tuesday, May 8th 2007 at 8:41AM
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