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Wiz Khalifa Tweets "cell-fie" Inside El Paso Police Jail

Wiz Khalifa's selfie and tweet while in jail

Wiz Khalifa's selfie and tweet while in jail

It's no secret rapper Wiz Khalifa loves weed.

He likes cannabis, Buddha, ganja or whatever name you want to attach to marijuana so much he admitted to the world he smokes weed everyday and spends $10,000 every month on the stuff.

So it comes as no surprise that law enforcers in El Paso, Texas set Wiz aside when he set foot at the El Paso airport en route to the Neon Desert Music Festival in that city on Saturday. He was a headliner at the event.

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Wiz, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, was stopped at an airport inspection checkpoint by agents of Transportation Security Administration. The El Paso police later said that because Khalifa couldn't present any ID, the TSA agents searched his things and found a canister containing just 0.5 grams, or half a gram, of weed.

The TSA said they discovered a "green leafy substance." They called the El Paso police that arrested Wiz and took him to a police station where he was charged with misdemeanor for possession of marijuana. Wiz was released after posting $300 bail.

Wiz got off several tweets and selfies, or "cell-fie" in this case, during his short stint in the slammer. He tweeted about being arrested several times and promised that when released, he'd drop his new mixtape, 28 Grams.

Wiz has been booked for possession of marijuana before. He was arrested during a 2010 tour when police confiscated over 60 grams of marijuana from his bus.

Texas is infamous among supporters fighting to legalize cannabis in the US. Wiz was arrested in roughly the same area of Texas where Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Fiona Apple and many others were arrested for weed possession.

Wiz khalifa is best known for his single, "Black and Yellow," which hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

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