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Mike Tyson boxing legend does not only like cannabis. He needs it.
“Some of us cannot live, cannot work without it,” Tyson told PK Press Club Digital, adding that it is “100%” of these people. He thinks he would probably be in prison and “less successful as a human being” if he had never discovered the plant.
Cannabis has played strongly in Tyson’s fight with Youtuber Jake Paul. Tyson says he was strongly under the influence of marijuana when he accepted the match.
When asked if he would have agreed to fight Paul if he was sober, Tyson said: “I don’t really believe it, no.”
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Mike Tyson, boxer and entrepreneur, smokes a joint at the Royal Queen Seeds at the Mary Jane Cannabis trade fair on June 20, 2025 in Berlin. (Sebastian Gollnow / Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
On the day of the match, Tyson said he used marijuana “shortly before” the fight starting.
“Yeah, I can’t stop. … I don’t think I was high. I was very relaxed and cool,” said Tyson about his state of mind before the fight. “It gave me an advantage.”
After losing against Paul in eight towers, Tyson immediately used marijuana.
“I said that I needed a joint right away. From its end, I needed a joint. Let’s go out from here,” said Tyson. “It was as if I dreamed. It was like a dream. It was beautiful. It was as if I had won the fight.”
When asked if he was fighting again, Tyson said: “It depends on whether cannabis becomes legal or not and reprogrammed.”
By “reprogrammed”, Tyson means that he wants to see the factory officially reclassified by the government of a category defined by a high abuse of abuse without medical use accepted to a category of moderate with low potential for physical and psychological dependence.
The ex-nfler says he would be in trouble “If cannabis was still largely illegal, happy that the players of today can use it
This is one of the three points that Tyson defended in a recent letter to the White House of President Donald Trump that he wrote in collaboration with other superstar athletes and artists, like Kevin Durant and Allen Iverson.
Tyson, during and the others put pressure for a reform and put their faith in Trump. Joe Biden, and previously Barack Obama, have not reached a major federal reform for cannabis or a significant leniency for people imprisoned for non -violent cannabis crimes during their respective terms.
“It was a disappointment, but you have to respect, they were in power. You have to respect this,” said Tyson. “We now have a different president, so we talk to him. So it seems that it is very different to speak to President Trump that with the other guy. And, as I already said, it is their agenda. It is our program here.”
Tyson added that he thought that the reprogramming of marijuana is the absolute priority of its federal reform objectives. In addition to that, he and his supporters want to see a mass length for non -violent marijuana offenders.
Tyson said they were going to prison for these offenses was an unhappy memory of his childhood.
“I always knew that. I always knew that I am friends with these people, people come from my community,” said Tyson. He recalled a member of his community whom he watched to go to prison when he was a child and who was not released until Tyson became an established fighter.
A recent study By researchers from UC San Francisco, have determined that consumption of edible cannabis, such as gammies, presents the same cardiovascular risk as smoking marijuana for long -term users. The risk stems from a reduction in the function of blood vessels, according to the study, published in Jama Cardiology on May 28.
Tyson admitted to having first used the medication before the age of 10. Now he thinks that the minimum age for a cannabis user should be 21 years old.
For Tyson, the plant has become a key element to succeed as a boxer. He claims that it made him a better athlete as an fighter, and he often used it after the fights to recover.
Apart from Paul’s fight, Tyson says that there has only been another time he used cannabis just before a fight. It was against Andrew Golota in 2000, a fight that Tyson won by Ko Technical.
“Very relaxing, very calm, very – I don’t know – just very free,” said Tyson about the experience that wins this fight under the influence of cannabis.
Tyson added that the plant helped him avoid other drugs, such as cocaine and alcohol.
“It makes you concern about health,” said Tyson.
However, when the factory was illegal and criminalized in certain parts of the United States, Tyson said he would fall sick using cannabis he had bought on the street that was prevented from chemicals. He says it happened several times.
“It was not good. I felt like my throat was going to explode,” said Tyson.
The prevention of marijuana propagation is prohibited from chemicals is one of the motor factors for Tyson’s pressure for federal reform. He thinks that industry must be legitimized to stifle the marijuana trade in the black market.
The last point he made in his letter to Trump was to put an end to banking practices that restrict the financial management of cannabis companies.
“They will do it anyway, legal or illegal, so let’s be secure. Take out all the bad players in the photo,” said Tyson.
Tyson does not go into his mission alone. He, Durant and Iverson were joined in the letter from former boxer Roy Jones Jr., the former star of Dallas Cowboys, Dez Bryant, the former NFL star Antonio Brown and the former NFL player and eminent cannabis defender Ricky Williams.
They were also joined by music producer Weldon Angelos, who was sentenced to 55 years in prison in November 2004 for marijuana accusations. Angelos was released in 2016 and forgiven by Trump in December 2020. The letter also criticized former president Joe Biden for a lack of action on the fight against imprisonment linked to marijuana.
Mike Tyson, right, fights Jake Paul at the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas, November 15, 2024. (Images Kevin Jairaj / Imagn)
“We want [Trump] To follow his campaign promises, “said Angelos.
“I think that many athletes use cannabis for medicinal purposes. This is why so many athletes are on the letter we organized, because cannabis helped it. Just watch Mike Tyson. … Cannabis has helped it enormously. So cannabis is a drug, people must have access to it.”
