Wiz Khalifa nine months Romanian prison sentence weed
A Romanian court has sentenced American rapper Wiz Khalifa to nine months in prison for drug possession after a cannabis incident in the country last year. The Constanța Court of Appeal upheld a prosecutor’s appeal against an earlier fine and issued the nine‑month sentence on Thursday, confirming the conviction for “possession of dangerous drugs, without right, for personal consumption.” The 38‑year‑old artist, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, was stopped by Romanian authorities in July 2024 after he allegedly smoked cannabis on stage during the Beach, Please! Festival in the coastal resort of Costinesti and was found with more than 18 grams of the drug on his person. Romanian law criminalizes even small amounts of cannabis, with penalties that can include several months to years in prison or fines, and prosecutors argued that a prison term was appropriate given the circumstances and the message such behaviour might send in public settings. The lower court had initially imposed a fine of roughly 3,600 lei, but prosecutors successfully argued for a harsher sentence at the appellate level. The decision is final under Romanian law, though it remains unclear whether authorities will seek to have Khalifa extradited from the United States, where he lives, to serve the sentence. Khalifa first rose to fame with his mixtape “Kush + Orange Juice” and is widely known for embracing cannabis culture in his music and public persona, but Romanian drug laws are among the strictest in Europe and do not differentiate between personal and larger scale possession. The ruling has drawn attention to the differences between drug laws across countries and the legal risks artists can face when performing abroad
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