Billionaire Elon Musk’s use of an array of mind-altering, illegal substances has executives at his flagship companies worried, according to a new report.
His alleged regular consumption of LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine, plus at least one notorious public pot smoking incident, have caused concern among the top ranks of Tesla and SpaceX, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
The execs are worried that his copious substance use is at least partly responsible for his documented erratic behavior, according to the newspaper. It’s especially concerning to SpaceX execs because of the possible violation of its contract with NASA, which forbids all drug use within companies it does business with.
The world’s richest man owns six companies with billions of dollars in assets, The Journal noted. From dropping tabs of acid at a 2018 party he hosted to tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico and recreational ketamine use at a 2021 Miami — in addition to the prescription treatments he said he’s under for depression — Musk’s drug use is common knowledge among his associates, the newspaper reported.
So great were the concerns among the higher-ups that it reportedly led former Tesla director Linda Johnson Rice to decline running for re-election in 2019, The Journal found.
At one 2017 meeting notable for its cringeworthiness, as one attendee would later put it, Musk was incomprehensible as he rambled in slurring speech for 15 minutes before SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell took over.
Musk later denied the characterization of that meeting and refused to comment on WSJ’s report. An attorney for the tech bigshot told the publication that Musk is “regularly and randomly drug tested at SpaceX and has never failed a test.”
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Theresa Braine
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