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19th December 2025
01:35pm GMT
Singer Wiz Khalifa has been sentenced to nine months in prison by a court in Romania for smoking cannabis on stage.
The American rapper and songwriter admitted that he smoked a joint on stage last year, while he was performing in the town of Costinesti at the Beach, Please! Festival.
The rapper, real name Cameron Jibril Thomaz, must serve the sentence in custody a Romanian appeals court ruled, as it overturned an earlier fine of 3,600 Romanian lei (€707) for drug possession.
Police briefly held and questioned him after the concert on 13 July 2024, and he was later charged with possession of “risk drugs” for personal use by the prosecutors.
He was in possession of more than 18 grams of cannabis and consumed an additional amount on stage, according to Romanian investigators.
The rapper was sentenced in absentia and earlier this week he was seen on stage performing with Gunna in California.
He even posted pictures and clips from his home on streaming platform Twitch and social media on Thursday.
A day after the incident, Wiz Khalifa said in a post on X that he did not mean to offend the country.
“They [the authorities] were very respectful and let me go. I'll be back soon. But without a big ass joint next time.”
According to Romanian criminologist Vlad Zaha, there was little-to-no chance of the US extraditing him and described the sentence as “unusually harsh”.
“Given the defendant's wealth and connections, Romania's lack of real negotiating power on extradition, and the legal and political status of cannabis in the US, it is highly unlikely that Wiz Khalifa will be sent to serve a prison sentence in Constanța, even though a formal judicial request will be submitted to the United States,” Mr Zaha told BBC News.
