Elon Musk Used LSD, Cocaine; Gave Slurred Speech At SpaceX Event: Report

Billionaire Elon Musk’s use of psychedelic medicine like ketamine to deal with melancholy made information final yr. However, in recent times, a number of board members at Tesla and SpaceX developed issues over his use of medicine, which might have main penalties for his well being and for the huge enterprise empire he oversees, as per a report in The Wall Street Journal.

People who’ve noticed and others who know the world’s richest particular person’s drug utilization declare that he has taken LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms, regularly at non-public events internationally the place company signal nondisclosure agreements or surrender their telephones to hitch. Mr Musk claims to have a prescription for the psychedelic-like drug ketamine and has beforehand used marijuana in public. 

For occasion, at a celebration he threw in Los Angeles in 2018, he took a number of tablets of acid. He used magic mushrooms at a celebration in Mexico the subsequent yr. He and his brother Kimbal Musk engaged in leisure ketamine utilization in 2021 whereas attending an Art Basel home get together in Miami. Along with Steve Jurvetson, a former board member of Tesla and present SpaceX, he additionally engaged in illicit drug use.

As per the report, Linda Johnson Rice, a former director at Tesla, turned so enraged with the billionaire’s erratic behaviour and his drug use that she determined to not run for re-election to the board of the electrical automobile producer in 2019. However, Mr Musk’s legal professional, Alex Spiro, mentioned that he’s “regularly and randomly drug tested at SpaceX and has never failed a test.” 

In one other incident, some SpaceX executives observed a change on the firm’s occasion in 2017. Hundreds of staff had gathered round mission management on the rocket firm’s headquarters in California, ready for the Chief, who was practically an hour late. When he stood on stage, Mr Musk was nearly incomprehensible and executives on the occasion mentioned that he slurred and rambled for round fifteen minutes, calling SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket prototype, or BFR, the “Big F****** Rocket.”  However, Mr Spiro known as the incident “false as has been confirmed by countless people who were present.” 

In 2018, Mr Musk landed in hassle with NASA after he was seen consuming marijuana on the Joe Rogan Show. This raised issues about Mr Musk’s behaviour’s impact on the corporate and led to random drug assessments of SpaceX personnel. 

It is to be famous that any type of unlawful drug utilization would violate company rules at each SpaceX and Tesla, along with breaking federal contracts. It would additionally forged doubt on Musk’s management function on the publicly listed Tesla, the place the board is tasked with monitoring administration on behalf of shareholders. Many Tesla board members have expressed their worries to 1 one other in regards to the CEO’s alleged drug utilization, however they have not made any feedback that will be included in assembly minutes or on the board’s official agenda. Certain administrators, resembling Robyn Denholm, the present chair of the Tesla board, have approached Kimbal Musk, a board member of each Tesla and SpaceX till early 2022, in search of help over Musk’s conduct, with out resorting to utilizing the phrase “drugs,” as per the report.

Executives are but to determine the explanation for Mr Musk’s uncommon behaviour together with his 2018 tweet about plans to make Tesla non-public or when he choked up describing how troublesome his yr had been. Some attribute it to using medicine whereas others say that it’s his power lack of sleep, which the billionaire has been vocal about.

Mr Musk on a number of events has acknowledged that he frequently slept at Tesla and X places of work and would electronic mail firm executives in the midst of the evening. He added that he works nearly continuous and “vacation”, for him is “a strong word”. 

Author Walter Isaacson characterised Mr Musk’s “demon mode” in a lately printed official biography of the billionaire. He mentioned that Elon Musk would usually lose his mood and strike out at executives and workers. Mr Musk is cited as saying, “I really don’t like doing illegal drugs,” within the guide.