The photographer killed last week trying to photograph Canada’s version of Rick Astley (gotcha!) swore up and down that he saw Justin Bieber smoking weed in his car.  The Beaver’s reps denied this was true, but TMZ posted photos today of Justin bogarting a blunt at a hotel room in Newport Beach; so at least that paparazzo didn’t die in vain.

I don’t have rights to the photo so I can’t post it, but he’s holding that thing like it’s a Virginia Slim! Puff n’ pass Justin. Puff n’ pass! That shit’ll get you killed in some circles.

Image:Adam Sundana [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons