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Boxing legend Mike Tyson has been at the forefront of cannabis reform in the US, and this weekend he posted the question on social media.
Tyson, 59, was open earlier this month in an interview with Pakinomist Digital about how he thought marijuana use kept him out of prison.
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Former Master Mike Tyson was scattered in the ropes in the fourth round of his match with British heavy weight Danny Williams before more than 17,000 fans in Freedom Hall. (Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal/USA Today Network via Imag images)
On Saturday, he announced that drug trafficking and traffickers continue to win until marijuana is legalized federal.
“Tired of hearing that legal cannabis will cause mass chaos or make people stick up the streets,” he wrote on X. “It’s just ridiculous. We have rules for cigarettes and alcohol, so cannabis would be no different. It’s about freedom. Adults should have the choice.
“Until it’s legally federal, cartels and traffickers continue to win.”
Tyson hopes to see the plant reclassified by the government from a category defined by great potential for abuse without accepted medical use to a category of moderate to low potential for physical and psychological addiction.
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Danny Williams and Mike Tyson during their heavyweight match on July 30, 2004 in Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. Tyson was knocked out in the fourth round. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
It is one of the three points that Tyson agreed in a recent letter to President Donald Trump’s White House, which he wrote with other superstar athletes and underholders, such as Kevin Durant and Allen Iverson.
Tyson added that he believes that the re -planning of marijuana is the highest priority in his federal reform target. He and his followers also want to see mass clemency for non -violent marijuana -law offenders. Tyson said that watching people go to jail for these offenses was an unfortunate memory of his childhood.
“I always knew that. I always knew I am friends with these people, people come from my community,” Tyson told Pakinomist Digital.
He remembered a member of his community, he watched to go to prison when he was a child and who was not released until Tyson became an established fighter.
Mike Tyson talks on stage under Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Match -Press Conference on May 16, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images to Netflix)
A recent study by researchers at UC San Francisco decided that eating edible cannabis, such as rubber, has the same cardiovascular risk as smoking marijuana for long -term users. The risk comes from reduced blood vessel function according to the study published in Jama Cardiology May 28.
