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Mike Tyson boxing legend not only likes cannabis. He needs it.
“Some of us cannot live, we cannot work without him,” Tyson told Pak Gazette Digital, and added that it is “100%” one of those people. He believes he would probably be in prison and “less successful as a human being” if he never discovered the plant.
Cannabis played a lot in Tyson’s fight with YouTuber Jake Paul. Tyson says he was very under the influence of marijuana when he accepted the game.
When asked if he would have agreed to fight Paul if he was sober, Tyson said: “I really don’t think so.”
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Mike Tyson, boxer and entrepreneur, smokes an articulation at the Royal Queen Seeds Stand at the Cannabis Mary Jane trade fair on June 20, 2025 in Berlin. (Sebastian Gallnow/Picture Alliance through Getty Images)
The day of the game, Tyson said he used marijuana “not long before” that the fight began.
“Yes, I can’t stop … I don’t think I was drugged. He was very relaxed and great,” Tyson said about his mental state before the fight. “He put me in an advantage.”
After losing to Paul in eight rounds, Tyson immediately used marijuana again.
“I said I needed an articulation immediately. As soon as it ended, I needed a joint. Let’s get out of here,” Tyson said. “It was as if I were dreaming. It was like a dream. It was beautiful. I felt as if he won the fight.”
When asked if he will fight again, Tyson said: “It depends on whether cannabis is ever legalized or not and reprogram.”
By “reprogrammed”, Tyson means that he wants to see the plant officially reclassified by the government of a category that is defined by a high potential for abuse without a medical use accepted for a category of moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.
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It is one of the three points that Tyson defended in a recent letter to the White House of President Donald Trump who wrote along with other athletes and superstar artists, such as Kevin Durant and Allen Iiverson.
Tyson, Durant and the others are pressing for the reform and are putting their faith in Trump. Joe Biden, and previously Barack Obama, did not achieve a great federal reform for cannabis or significant clemency for those imprisoned for non -violent cannabis crimes during their respective terms.
“It was a disappointment, but you must respect that they were in power. You have to respect that,” Tyson said. “We have a different president now, so we are talking to him. So, it seems very different to talk to President Trump than with the other guy. And, as I said before, that is his agenda. This is our agenda here.”
Tyson added that he believes that the reprogramming of marijuana is the main priority in its federal reform objectives. In addition to that, he and his followers want to see mass clemency for non -violent marijuana criminals.
Tyson said that seeing people go to jail for these crimes was an unfortunate memory of his childhood.
“I always knew. I always knew that I am a friend of those people, people come from my community,” Tyson said. He remembered a member of his community that he saw to go to jail when he was a child and was not released until Tyson became an established fighter.
A recent study By researchers from UC San Francisco they determined that eating edible cannabis, such as gommies, has the same cardiovascular risk as smoking marijuana for long -term users. The risk comes from the reduced function of blood vessels, according to the study, published in Jama Cardiology on May 28.
Tyson admitted to having used the drug first before being 10 years old. Now, he believes that the minimum age for a cannabis user should be 21 years old.
For Tyson, the plant became a key component to achieve success as a boxer. He claims that he made him a better athlete as a fighter, he often used it after fighting to recover.
In addition to Paul’s fight, Tyson says there was only one again when he used cannabis just before a fight. It was against Andrew Golota in 2000, a fight that Tyson won by technical Knockout.
“Very relaxing, very quiet, very, I don’t know, very free,” Tyson said about the experience gaining that fight under the influence of cannabis.
Tyson added that the plant helped him avoid other drugs, such as cocaine and alcohol.
“It makes you aware of health,” Tyson said.
However, when the plant was illegal and criminalized in parts of the United States, Tyson said he would get sick when using the cannabis he bought on the street that was full of chemicals. He says it happened several times.
“It wasn’t good. He felt my throat was going to explode,” Tyson said.
Preventing the propagation of marijuana mixed with chemicals is one of the impulse factors behind the impulse of Tyson for federal reform. He believes that the industry must be legitimized to turn off the marijuana trade in the black market.
The last point he made in his letter to Trump was to end the banking practices that restrict financial management for cannabis companies.
“Anyway they will do it, legal or illegal, so we will do it for sure. Take out all the bad actors of the scene,” Tyson said.
Tyson is not embarking alone in his mission. He, Durant and Iiverson joined in the letter by former boxer Roy Jones Jr., former star of the Dallas Cowboys, Dez Bryant, former NFL star Antonio Brown and former NFL player and prominent defender of Cannabis Ricky Williams.
The music producer Weldon Angelos also joined them, who was sentenced to 55 years in prison in November 2004 for charges of marijuana. Angelos was released in 2016 and forgiven by Trump in December 2020. The letter also criticized former President Joe Biden for lack of measures to address the imprisonment related to marijuana.
Mike Tyson, on the right, fights Jake Paul at the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas, November 15, 2024. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn images)
“We want [Trump] To follow his campaign promises, “Angelos said.
“I think many athletes use cannabis for medicinal purposes. That is why so many athletes are in the letter we organize, because cannabis has helped. Just look at Mike Tyson … Cannabis has helped it greatly. Then, cannabis is a medicine, people must have access to it.”
