If his posts on his social media site, X, are any indication, Elon Musk is letting a New York Times report that he’s taken so much ketamine he can’t pee right get to him.
“To be clear, I am NOT taking drugs!” Musk wrote on Saturday. “The New York Times was lying their ass off. I tried *prescription* ketamine a few years ago and said so on X, so this not even news. It helps for getting out of dark mental holes, but haven’t taken it since then.”
Musk was allegedly taking ketamine, Ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms during the 2024 campaign, The New York Times reported Friday. He apparently used ketamine so heavily that it’s affected his bladder, a known issue caused by chronic ketamine use. Sources said that he was using ketamine almost daily, mixing it with other drugs. His usage reportedly troubled those around him. It is unclear whether his alleged drug habit continued when he became part of the Trump administration.
Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, has become increasingly popular, including among the teetotaling influencers on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
Musk was an integral part of the 2024 election, spending about $290 million to support Donald Trump and Republicans. When Trump took office, Musk became the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, an effort to slash the federal workforce and make the government more MAGA. On Wednesday, it was reported that Musk’s time in the Trump administration was coming to an end.
Musk posted multiple times about the allegations of drug use on Friday and Saturday.
“I’m in meetings with dozens to hundreds of people every day and am photographed constantly. If this bs from NYT were true, it would have been EXTREMELY obvious,” Musk posted.
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The Times points out that Musk’s behavior has been “erratic,” like his insulting Secretary of State Marco Rubio — and his posting incessantly on X, at all hours of the day and night.
During an appearance with Trump in the Oval Office on Friday, Musk was sporting a black eye, which he blamed on his 5-year-old son, also nicknamed X.
“I was just horsing around with little X, and I said, ‘Go ahead, punch me in the face.’ And he did,” he said at a news conference at the White House.
As the head of SpaceX, a massive government contractor, Musk said he’s been subjected to random drug tests.
“The 3 years of random drug testing was just because of one semi-puff during a @JoeRogan podcast!” he wrote on X Saturday, referencing when he took a hit off a joint on Rogan’s show in 2018. SpaceX gives out random drug tests, a requirement as a federal contractor. According to the Times, Musk has gotten advance warning of the tests.
“I’m not on ketamine ffs,” he wrote in another post.
Trump said Friday that he did not know about Musk’s reported regular drug usage. “I’m not troubled by anything with Elon,” he said. “I think he’s fantastic.”
Musk has spoken about his prescription ketamine use in the past. Last March, he told journalist Don Lemon that he uses a “small amount” of ketamine about once every other week. The ketamine, he said, is prescribed by “an actual, real doctor.”
“There are times when I have sort of a … negative chemical state in my brain, like depression I guess, or depression that’s not linked to any negative news, and ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,” he said.
“If you use too much ketamine, you can’t really get work done,” Musk added. “I have a lot of work, I’m typically putting in 16-hour days … so I don’t really have a situation where I can be not mentally acute for an extended period of time.”
From Rolling Stone US
