Jake "The Snake" Roberts recently shared his thoughts on a number of pro wrestling-related topics.
During a recent installment of the DDP Snakepit podcast, the WWE Hall of Fame legend spoke about alcohol causing more issues than marijuana, Vince McMahon eventually banning marijuana in WWE at the time, as well as why McMahon banning pot ended up being bad for the health of a lot of the wrestlers.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the episode where Roberts touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On alcohol causing way more problems than marijuana: “I don’t think marijuana is a gateway drug. I think alcohol is. I’ll tell all the folks out there, I’m pro-pot, you know? I never got in a fight when I was smoking pot. I never got in trouble when I was smoking pot. I never wanted to do cocaine when I was smoking pot. But you give me a few Jack Daniels, brother, I want to fight and I want some s**t to go down and I want some goddamn cocaine right now.”
On Vince McMahon eventually banning marijuana in WWE at the time: “My routine, in the beginning, was beer, a little pot, a little sleeping pill. And then Vince came along and cut the pot out. Man, when he cut that pot out, that was tough, because we didn’t have a go-to thing to relax us now. We had to double up on the beer. Then a lot of us started taking different pills and that leads to problems. When start mixing your drugs, you’re going to kill yourself. That’s gotten a lot of guys. They start mixing them. They take a pill, they have a few beers, they pass out, and they wake up and they think ‘wait a minute, I didn’t take my pills!’ And they take more. That’s your danger zone. That’s when you’re flying into the fire, you know?”
On the reason why McMahon banning pot was detrimental to a lot of wrestler’s health: “For Vince, the worst thing he could’ve done was take marijuana away from us. Because that was everybody’s go-to thing, to relax. Of course, it was one of the worst things to get out of your system. Whereas cocaine would be out of your system in three days, marijuana would stay in your system for 30 days. So you’re screwed.”
Check out the complete episode of the show at Apple.com. H/T to WrestlingInc.com for transcribing the above quotes.
