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Wiz Khalifa sentenced to nine months jail in Romaniawww.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wxp2p05xo
331 sats \ 7 comments \ @Coinsreporter 11h news
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.
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.
However he was sentenced in abstentia, and it is unclear if Jibril is even in Romania - he was last seen on Tuesday, performing with Gunna in California.
My gosh! He's a ten-time Grammy-nominated artist!!
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95 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 11h
That's ridiculous. He will never serve the sentence though. They aren't going to ask for extradition for this.
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61 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 10h
The same thing is true about punk band 'pussy riots'. I don't know why the judiciary make such stupid decisions.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 7h
Wild
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61 sats \ 1 reply \ @satdesigner 9h
they're askin' 4 "blood"
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80 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 8h
taylor gang
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plunda 49m
great marketing campaign for Wiz
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ZezzebbulTheMysterious 3h
The problem here is that the state didn’t need to go through this charade. He was tried in absentia. He is never going back to this place. Romania has no power to enforce this. It was a waste of Romanian tax payers money funding a theatrical performance for a bunch of old men. Just waste, to send a message, in the dying days of a war long lost.
Today, in the U.S., an executive order was signed to reclassify cannabis, which is the primary reason pretty much any other state in the world still has it illegal, and consequently not built a local cannabis industry worth real money. It has been traded by humans for centuries.
Romania are attempting to exclude this man’s cultural works from their state. Which is impossible. Of course, this just makes him more popular, illicit. Europe is connected enough, any Romanian could go to one of his concerts in any other European city trivially. The only people hurt by this are themselves, Romanian local commercial activities like concerts, merch, food, entertainment from tours. I hope the see the absurdity of their actions and adopt a more 21st century view of things.
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