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Nickelback Singer Used To Deal Drugs


Nickelback Canadian rocker Chad Kroeger subsidized his income dealing drugs before finding fame in Nickelback. The 33-year-old fell on tough times growing up in Hanna, Alberta and so decided to make some money selling cannabis and hallucinogenic magic mushrooms.

He tells Playboy magazine, "I sold a little weed here, some mushrooms there. I had to subsidise the income somehow.

"I knew a lot of people who had weed, and a lot of people on the oil rigs needed weed. I could get it. That seemed like a no-brainer."


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    March 10, 2008

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