Mike Tyson, boxer and entrepreneur, smokes a joint at the Royal Queen Seeds stand at the Mary Jane cannabis trade fair June 20, 2025, in Berlin. (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images) ...

Boxing legend Mike Tyson is among a fleet of star athletes and entertainers behind the push for cannabis reform, urging President Donald Trump to deliver on a "failed" pledge from former President ...

"Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson" by Mark Kriegel. (June 2025, Penguin Press) It is much to Kriegel’s credit and to your enjoyment that he does not focus on the ferocity of Tyson’s fights.

To see Tyson now — bro avatar, cuddly tough guy, weed magnate — is to see someone who has shed and transcended every element of what made him so fascinating, and so dangerous, in the 1980s.