celeb news Lil Wayne & Post Malone paid $9 million by Gov to have a sober workplace during Covid

[wehavetostan]

According to a Business Insider article:

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Lil Wayne is a big fan of marijuana. He often smokes joints on podcasts and onstage, and the word "baked" is tattooed on his forehead. In 2019, he launched a marijuana brand, and a few years before that, he told an interviewer that weed was one of the most important things in his life.

 

But in 2021, Lil Wayne — whose real name is Dwayne Carter — told the government his touring company was a "drug-free workplace." The "dangers" of drugs such as weed were communicated to employees, he said, and they were told they could be punished or be forced to go to rehab.

 

Similarly, Austin Post, a singer better known as Post Malone, told the SBA his company Posty Touring Inc. warned employees against using drugs. But in 2020, Post said on Joe Rogan's podcast that he made music while on hallucinogenic mushrooms, whose active compound psilocybin has been a Schedule 1 drug since 1970.

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Companies led by Carter and Post were among the recipients of aid under the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, which was meant to help struggling music venues avoid bankruptcy. In 2023, BI spotlighted $200 million in payments from the initiative to big-name artists, many of them already rich and most of them clients of the Los Angeles accounting and asset-management firm NKSFB.

 

[Cesar]

post malone out of all people having a ”drug free” workplace

[wastedpotential]

Not this fraud 

 

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couldn't it have ******* waited until after Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) was out 

 

[rhaenyra]

They both got $9M for essentially nothing then