Wiz Khalifa sentenced to nine months jail in Romania for smoking cannabis on stage

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A Romanian court has sentenced Wiz Khalifa to nine months in prison for smoking cannabis on stage.

The American rapper, real name Thomaz Cameron Jibril, admitted to smoking a joint during his performance at the Beach, Please! festival last year in Costinesti.

Romanian investigators said he was in possession of more than 18 grams of cannabis and consumed an additional amount on stage.

A Romanian appeals court overturned an earlier fine of 3,600 Romanian lei (£619; $829) for drug possession and ruled the rapper must serve the sentence in custody.

He was sentenced in absentia. Earlier this week he was seen on stage performing in California.

Police briefly held and questioned Jibril after the concert on 13 July 2024, and prosecutors later charged him with possession of "risk drugs" for personal use.

In a written decision, the Constanța Court of Appeal judges said they overturned the original fine because the artist had sent "a message of normalisation of illegal conduct" and thereby encouraged "drug use among young people".

Calling it an "ostentatious act", the judges said the rapper was "a music performer, on the stage of a music festival well known among young people" who "possessed and consumed, in front of a large audience predominantly made up of very young people, an artisanal cigarette".

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[Killa 18,005]

Ahah stupid ass. 

[SlowLoris 1,110]

So legit question... Would the US extradite him to Romania for this sentence or does he just have to never step foot there ever again?  Like I can't see why they'd go through the trouble, but I also don't know much about how that works

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52 minutes ago, SlowLoris said:

So legit question... Would the US extradite him to Romania for this sentence or does he just have to never step foot there ever again?  Like I can't see why they'd go through the trouble, but I also don't know much about how that works

it is unlikely that the US will extradite him but Romania is a member of the European Union so Romania can issue a European Arrest Warrant an he can be arrested in other EU countries. 

[PartySick 163,868]

Incarcerating people for nonviolent drug crimes is so beyond ridiculous. Such an archaic stance, especially with something as harmless as weed.

9 months in prison for a joint