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Romanian officials have indicted rapper Wiz Khalifa after he lit up and smoked a joint on-stage at the Beach Please! festival on the Black Sea coast.
Local news sources report that prosecutors from the country’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) have indicted the rapper under his real name—Cameron Jibril Thomaz. The indictment for illicit drug use comes after an investigation by the Costanta Territorial Service.
Wiz Khalifa was arrested on July 13 after performing his set at the Beach Please! Festival in Costinesti. The rapper later took to social media to apologize for the incident, saying he didn’t mean any disrespect when he lit the joint on-stage.
“Last night’s show was amazing. I didn’t mean any disrespect to the country of Romania by lighting up onstage,” Wiz Khalifa wrote on X/Twitter. “They were very respectful and let me go. I’ll be back soon. But without a big ass joint next time.”
According to DIICOT officials, when the rapper was arrested he was found to be in possession of over 18 grams of cannabis and “consumed another amount of cannabis in the form of an artisanal cigarette.” Possession of any amount of cannabis is illegal in Romania and could carry with it a sentence between three months and two years.
Wiz Khalifa has several high profile cannabis brands in the United States and often regularly tweets about the amount of weed he smokes. He operates Khalifa Kush, a cannabis brand build around a strain of weed developed specifically for the brand in the early 2010s. In 2023, the rapper took to Twitter to state he planned to get high before throwing the first pitch at a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Guardians.
“Finna get stoned af and throw this first pitch at the pirates game,” the rapper wrote on X/Twitter. Just a few minutes later, he sent a follow up: “Shroomed out throwin’ a baseball is crazy.”