Mike Tyson takes another blow to the reform of marijuana

Mike Tyson boxing legend was at the forefront of cannabis reform in the United States and this weekend, he posted on the issue on social networks.

Tyson, 59, was opened earlier this month in an interview with Fox News Digital on the way he thought that the use of marijuana held him outside prison.

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Former Champion Mike Tyson was extended in the strings in the fourth round of his fight with the British heavyweight Danny Williams before more than 17,000 fans at Freedom Hall. (Pat McDonogh / Courier Journal / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

On Saturday, he posted that drug traffickers and human traffickers will continue to win until marijuana is legalized by the federal government.

“Tired of learning that legal cannabis will cause mass chaos or that people stirred the streets,” he wrote on X. “It’s simply ridiculous. We have rules for cigarettes and alcohol, therefore, cannabis would not be different. It is freedom. Adults should have the choice.

“Until it is legal federal, cartels and traffickers of human beings continue to win.”

Tyson hoped to see the plant reclassified by the government of a category defined by a high abuse of abuse without medical use accepted to a category of moderate potential with low physical and psychological dependence.

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Danny Williams and Mike Tyson in their heavyweight match on July 30, 2004 in Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. Tyson was eliminated in the fourth round. (Focus on sport / getty images)

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 added that he thought that the reprogramming of marijuana is the absolute priority of its federal reform objectives. He and his supporters also want to see the leniency of mass 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,” Tyson told Fox News Digital.

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.

Mike Tyson speaks on stage at Jake Paul’s press conference against Mike Tyson on May 16, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. (Cooper Neill / Getty Images for Netflix)

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A recent study by UC San Francisco researchers has determined that consumption of edible cannabis, such as gummies, has 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.

Jackson Thompson de Fox News contributed to this report.

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