Elon Musk, the inventor of Tesla, responded to allegations made over the weekend in a startling Wall Street Journal article that suggested board members at his firms were concerned about his drug usage.
Musk addressed the news early on Monday morning in a tweet on his social media network, X.
‘TMZ has vastly higher standards than the WSJ (actually),’ Musk wrote an apparent jab at the broadsheet Wall Street Journal by comparing it to TMZ, a website that specialises in salacious gossip.
Speaking to the Journal, Musk’s attorney, Alex Spiro, said that the South African was ‘regularly and randomly drug tested at SpaceX and has never failed a test.’
The article alleges that Musk’s drug of choice is ketamine, a dissociative anaesthetic that can produce hallucinogenic effects.
As a result of Musk’s public marijuana smoking during an appearance on controversial podcaster Joe Rogan’s show in 2018, it is thought that Tesla’s stock fell. Cannabis is legal in California, where the episode was recorded.
Nonetheless, sources told the Journal that the owner of X has also used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms. These events are often private, invitation-only affairs where attendees must sign nondisclosure agreements and turn in their phones to prevent photo ops.
For instance, the Journal revealed that during a party he threw in Los Angeles in 2018, he consumed several tablets of acid.
He allegedly used magic mushrooms at a party in Mexico the next year, and in 2021, he and his brother allegedly used ketamine recreationally at a Miami home party.
The billionaire has even taken drugs with current SpaceX and former Tesla board member Steve Jurvetson, according to the Journal.
People who know the 52-year-old well are now allegedly worried that the amount of drugs he takes might lead to a health problem or a disaster for his companies.
Currently, SpaceX is the only American business authorised to carry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Resignations at the top of Musk’s companies have already occurred as a result of his drug usage and the erratic behaviour it may foster, according to the Journal.
Linda Johnson Rice, a former Tesla director, allegedly became increasingly concerned with Musk’s drug taking and so frustrated with his behaviour that she didn’t stand for re-election to the company’s board in 2019, people familiar with the matter told the publication.
According to the Journal’s sources, Musk rambled rather incoherently for fifteen minutes during a SpaceX discussion concerning the Big Falcon Rocket prototype in 2017, raising serious worries about his drug use.
He is worth £243.5 billion UDS, so who cares what he does? He is free to do what he pleases. However, as an individual, he can do what he likes, but as a public company CEO with a fiduciary duty to shareholders, pension, mutual funds, asset managers et Cetera, then no he can’t, and if he wishes to do what he likes then perhaps he should resign.
Of course, being a billionaire allows him to purchase things more luxuriously, but he is still bound by the law.
The only joke now is Elon Musk and how a grown man of 52 years old can’t decide whether he’s a frat boy who never actually grew up. Peter Pan Syndrome.
The question is not if he’s allowed to do drugs, but if he can manage companies this important under the influence.
Naturally, all of this is rumoured, and I am unable to find a single piece of concrete evidence. However, you never know these days; he may be taking anything behind closed doors, for which there is no evidence.
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