{"id":54277,"date":"2021-10-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/mike-tyson-says-he-would-have-been-less-violent-if-he-smoked-weed-earlier-in-his-boxing-career\/"},"modified":"2021-10-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T12:00:00","slug":"mike-tyson-says-he-would-have-been-less-violent-if-he-smoked-weed-earlier-in-his-boxing-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/mike-tyson-says-he-would-have-been-less-violent-if-he-smoked-weed-earlier-in-his-boxing-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson Says He Would Have Been Less Violent If He Smoked Weed Earlier in His Boxing Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Big if true: While announcing his new cannabis line, Mike Tyson says he would have been a better fighter in the ring, and less of a brawler outside of the ring if he\u2019d started smoking marijuana earlier in his career. <\/p>\n

“My life was just miserable, I was out of control,\u201d Tyson told<\/u><\/a> Yahoo! Finance<\/em> reporter Zack Guzman. \u201cI was fighting with everybody. If someone asked me for an autograph, I’d punch them in the face. I was just a mess, and then after I retired, I started smoking. What a mistake that was \u2014 I should have smoked my whole career. I should have smoked when I was fighting because it put me in this different state of mind. I’m very relaxed and the more relaxed you are, the better fighter you are, at least in my case.\u201d<\/p>\n

How much green does Tyson need to stay equilibrated? In 2019, he mused to a reporter that it could be as high as $40,000 a month<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n