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George Michael on new cannabis and DUI charges

British pop singer George Michael was charged with possession of cannabis and driving while unfit through drinks and drugs, police in London said Thursday.

The 47-year-old was arrested in the early hours of July 4 after allegedly crashing his car into a London store.

He was reportedly traveling back from a gay pride march in central London when his Range Rover crashed into the branch of British photo developing store Snappy Snaps.

Michael was ordered to appear before Highbury magistrates court on Aug. 24.

The store manager, Jun Mustafa, said at the time of the crash: “You’re looking at a new shop front definitely — it was quite badly damaged.”

The star ended a two-year driving ban last year after he was found slumped at the wheel of his car in May 2007 “unfit to drive through drugs.”

He was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs in Berkshire, southeast England in August 2009, but was later released without charge.

The star’s most famous brush with the law came in 1998 when he was arrested for “engaging in a lewd act” with an undercover police officer in a toilet in Los Angeles.