Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, 60, revealed that he was introduced to alcohol and marijuana when he was just 10 years old. Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience, Tyson said his mother, who struggled with alcoholism, gave him the substances in hopes they would help him sleep. “When you’re a kid your mother gives you liquor and marijuana for you to think that you’re going to go to sleep or something,” Tyson said. When asked when he first tried drugs, Tyson replied, “Kid. The boxing icon has long spoken about growing up in poverty in Brooklyn and losing his mother, Lorna Tyson, when he was 16.