Major AEW Star Reveals Ronda Rousey Introduced Them To Weed
This AEW star talks about how smoking weed helped her make a major life change.
Marina Shafir, who currently wrestles in AEW and is a former Mixed Martial Artist, recently opened up about a difficult time in her life.
The star, who is part of the Death Riders stable, recently spoke to High Times about how she was given a chocolate bar with weed by none other than former WWE and now AEW star Ronda Rousey when Shafir moved to Los Angeles following the death of her father to live with Rousey.
Rousey is famous for her Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) work as she is a former UFC Bantamweight Champion and the first woman to win an Olympic medal in Judo.
She then achieved worldwide stardom by joining WWE and has recently made a return to wrestling by signing with AEW.
Rousey is also Shafir’s best friend, and the latter says in the interview that it’s after training with Ronda that she started taking MMA seriously.
AEW Star Marina Shafir Talks About How Smoking Weed Helped Her Quit Alcohol
Shafir says that she was introduced to weed in her teens and had developed an alcohol problem, which she later dealt with after Rousey’s 100-milligram chocolate bar infused with weed helped her make a life change and quit alcohol
I tried weed when I was in my late teens, but I was more of a drinker back then. I grew up around Russians, and my family is very Slavic and European.
Every weekend, everyone was drinking and smoking cigarettes. That was the dessert for the week. But when I was 23, my dad died, and soon after that, I moved out to California to live with my best friend, Ronda, to train and take martial arts seriously. That’s when I really started smoking weed.
It was actually hilarious because as soon as we got to LA, she gave me this chocolate bar. I didn’t know how much to take, and I ended up eating the whole thing. It was 100 milligrams. I was supposed to start training the next day. I was out for three days.
So I slept it off, chugged a lot of water, and after that, slowly started smoking small amounts of weed. Eventually, it just became a natural part of my day. And then I quit drinking, which was a good thing.
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