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EXCLUSIVE: As President Donald Trump determines whether to pursue the Federal Cannabis reform, he can also exercise the power to determine the future of Mike Tyson’s boxing career.
Tyson has been one of the most vocal defenders for the reprogramming of the marijuana of an Annex I drug to Annex III, which is considered a much less dangerous category of substance. Trump told reporters on Monday that it is a decision that he will determine in the coming weeks.
Tyson told Pak Gazette Digital in an exclusive interview on June 30, his 59th birthday, if they will depend again on whether cannabis will be legalized and reprogrammed.
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Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul while they face during their ceremonial weighing on November 14, 2024 in Irving, Texas. (Christian Petersen/Getty images)
“It depends on whether cannabis is ever legalized or not, and it is reprogrammed,” Tyson said when asked if it is possible to accept another fight.
Tyson said he agreed in his last fight against YouTuber Jake Paul while he was under the influence of marijuana, and would not have accepted the fight if he was sober.
“I really don’t believe it. No, I wouldn’t have done it,” Tyson said when asked about the fight. “Because without cannabis, I get too involved in my feelings. With cannabis, I am very objective.”
He added that “it wouldn’t take much” [cannabis] For him to accept another fight, before suggesting that depends on the reprogramming of the plant.
Tyson directed a coalition of current and previous athletes, including Kevin Durant, Dez Bryant and Antonio Brown, who signed a letter to the White House at the end of June, pressing for the Federal Reform of Cannabis. The letter requested the reprogramming of the cannabis of Annex I to Annex III, the clemency of “non -violent” marijuana crimes and the end of “discriminatory banking practices”, related to the financial regulations of the cannabis industry.
Tyson told Pak Gazette Digital in the June 30 interview that reprogramming was the “most important” objective in his letter. He added that he was “disappointed” by how former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden handled the federal marijuana reform, but hopes Trump adopt a new approach.
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“It was a disappointment,” Tyson said about the management of Obama and Biden. “We have a different president now, so we are talking to him. So it seems like a very different talk with President Trump than with the other types.”
Tyson has a long -standing friendship with Trump that dates back to the 1980s, during the first years of Tyson’s boxing career and Trump’s rise as a real estate developer from New York City.
Now Tyson believes that Trump himself would make good decisions for the country under the influence of marijuana.
“I really think so,” Tyson said.
Donald Trump and Mike Tyson attend a March of Dimes dinner in November 1989 in New York City. (Sonia Moskowitz/Getty images)
Even so, Tyson said he would never invite Trump to use marijuana with him.
“In any way. No, he does not smoke, he does not believe in anything that can improve the motor skills of his brain. And respect that,” Tyson said.
In addition to reprogramming, clemency for non -violent users is also a very personal priority for Tyson. Tyson said he has seen people imprisoned for the crimes of non -violent marijuana since he was a child.
“I am a friend of those people. Those people come from my community,” Tyson said.
Tyson remembered the first person he met that he was imprisoned for such an offense.
“I know he did a long time. I know it was there when he was a little boy. When he left, he was boxing,” Tyson said. “He was a friend of people in the neighborhood. Everyone in the neighborhood knew who he was. He was not really a friend with whom he left or anything, but the whole neighborhood knew who he was … I never smoked with him.”
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.
