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The champ is here for herb.
According to an exclusive report from celebrity gossip website The Blast, Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight champion, thespian, and earlobe connoisseur is getting in on California’s green rush. Last month, the notorious athlete broke ground on a 40-acre parcel of land that will eventually become Tyson Ranch, a cannabis resort featuring cultivation, production, and sales of the newly-legal plant, as well as luxury camping and entertainment events.
Tyson Ranch will be located in California City, a remote desert town 60 miles away from Death Valley. At least half of the land will be developed into cultivation facilities, leaving another 20 acres for proposed extract and edible production facilities, an amphitheatre, and “glamping campgrounds and cabins.”
To kick off the desert town’s transition into a cannabis cornucopia, Tyson was joined by California City mayor Jennifer Wood at the official groundbreaking ceremony. During the event, Mayor Wood championed the famous boxer and his investment partners for bringing what she expects to be an economic boom to the tiny town.
“Undeveloped lands are primed to be cultivated,” Mayor Woods told The…
