Elon Musk Denies He Has a Drug Problem

Elon Musk has denied that he has a drug problem after a report alleges that the CEO has taken LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms, citing unnamed sources close to or within Musk’s inner circle.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Tesla founder arrived nearly an hour late to an all-hands meeting at SpaceX in 2017, rambling and slurring his words for about 15 minutes before the meeting was taken over by the spacecraft manufacturer’s president, Gwynne Shotwell.

Reportedly, executives of the company privately worried whether Musk was on drugs during the meeting, the WSJ revealed. The paper claimed Musk “referred repeatedly to SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket prototype, which was known as BFR, as ‘Big F—ing Rocket.’”

An executive told the outlet that Musk was “nonsensical,” “unhinged,” and “cringeworthy.” Per the WSJ, if these rumors are true, nearly $1 trillion in assets held by investors, about 13,000 jobs, and the future of the U.S. space program are at risk.

People close to the Tesla Inc. and SpaceX chief executive officer told the newspaper his drug use is ongoing and that, in particular, he’s consuming ketamine. Musk said in August he has a prescription to use the drug as an antidepressant, reported Bloomberg.

Max Chafkin from Bloomberg said, “Well, he’s sort of swung in various directions sometimes. He said, ‘Whatever I’m taking, I should continue taking it.’ Basically pointing to the performance and also the fact that a lot of this stuff, or at least some of it, has happened more or less in the open.”

Chafkin cited the fact that Musk has smoked marijuana on Joe Rogan’s podcast. However, it is noted that Musk claims SpaceX has to drug test him as part of the fallout from that appearance.

“After that one puff with Rogan, I agreed, at NASA’s request, to do 3 years of random drug testing,” Musk wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “Not even trace quantities were found of any drugs or alcohol.”