Famed Stoner Wiz Khalifa Opens Up About Going 'California Sober'

Wiz Khalifa is apparently off the sauce for good. The 36-year-old rapper has opened up about his decision to go "California sober," referring to a lifestyle in which people abstain from alcohol but continue using marijuana and other "natural" drugs.

His big reveal likewise comes on the heels of releasing of new mixtape aptly-titled Khali Sober.

"I quit drinking ... I've been Cali sober for about eight months now," Khalifa explained on this week's Cuhmunity podcast featuring AD and AceBoyPun. "I completely stopped and I just do shrooms and smoke weed now. And it's been going really good, I've been like, you know, trying to stop drinking for a long time, like I was on and off."

Khalifa said that not drinking while he was in the recording studio ultimately helped him to quit. "So like that took out a lot of then time that I was drinking, but then it would still be performance time and in the club, or you know family events or whatever whatever, so I was just like, you know what, I just quit drinking altogether."

"And I still have you know, [McQueen Gin and Belaire Bleu cuvée] and those are my liquor companies and I still want people to enjoy alcohol responsibly but it's just not my thing anymore," he added.

What's more, Khalifa said that he just wrapped up his High School Reunion Tour with Snoop Dogg without touching a drop of alcohol. Though he does admit that he "smoked weed everyday" during the tour, he said he felt better than he ever has.

"It was my first tour sober. It was awesome, bro," he raved. "It was super cool like, to me it was like I had a whole new take on things. It gave me an opportunity to do something that I've been doing for 15 years now, it gave me a brand new way to do it, brand new approach to it, brand new enlightenment, and just a whole new excitement about it. Every night I felt great, I felt great waking up in the morning."

Before quitting for good, Khalifa released a single at the end of 2022 called "#NeverDrinkingAgain," which hinted at his previous struggles with alcohol.

"Lotta women, no liquor / I don’t really want my head spinning / I know where to start, know the beginning," he rapped on the track, recalling the feeling of a hangover. "It be like two shots then I’m loaded / Then them two shots turn to 40 / Then I wake up in the morning like / How did I slip up? / When I said I wasn’t drinking again."