Elon Musk’s Drug Use Much Greater Than Previously Known: NYT | EUROtoday

He forcibly and doubtlessly illegally gained entry to wildly delicate authorities knowledge that he employed a bunch of unvetted 20-somethings to supervise ― and he was doubtlessly blitzed out of his thoughts on the identical time.

Just days after tech billionaire Elon Musk formally left his function as a prime adviser to President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported that the tech mogul was consuming massive portions of medication across the identical time he turned a fixture on the marketing campaign path.

Citing non-public messages obtained by the Times and interviews with Musk’s associates, the outlet reported that Musk took ketamine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, Ambien, Adderall, and different medicine, and traveled with a day by day treatment field that held about 20 capsules.

The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla reportedly took a lot Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic recognized to induce schizophrenia-like signs, that it affected his bladder perform.

The report is bolstered by a January 2024 Wall Street Journal investigation during which sources near Musk mentioned they’d witnessed or had direct information of him utilizing LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine.

Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro informed the Journal on the time that his consumer is “regularly and randomly drug tested at SpaceX” and has “never failed a test.”

It’s unclear how, or whether or not, Musk’s consumption habits modified as soon as he turned a federal bureaucrat with an workplace within the White House advanced. He didn’t tackle the claims instantly at a Friday afternoon press convention within the Oval Office, as a substitute attacking the credibility of The New York Times itself.

But he’s continued drawing consideration for uncommon antics, together with a chainsaw-wielding look on the Conservative Political Action Conference and a Nazi-like hand gesture at Trump’s inaugural rally.

In April, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) launched a invoice that may require Musk and his hires on the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to bear common drug testing, although the invoice has gone nowhere within the Republican-majority home.

“Donald Trump has given billionaire Elon Musk the keys to our government, and with it, access to highly sensitive information — from Treasury and Social Security data to even our most guarded military plans,” Sherrill wrote in a press launch. “Those with access to sensitive information must be thoroughly vetted, clear-eyed, and exercise good judgment.”

Asked Friday if he was involved about drug use by Musk, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was dismissive ― however notably didn’t rule it out.

“The drugs that we’re concerned about are the drugs running across the southern border,” he informed reporters.

The eccentric billionaire has overtly mentioned his ketamine use previously. In a 2024 interview with Don Lemon, he mentioned he took “a small amount” each different week ― however acquired miffed when Lemon pushed him on it.

“If you’ve used too much ketamine, you can’t really get work done, and I have a lot of work,” he informed the journalist on the time.

An Atlantic article describing the drug’s results on the physique discovered folks construct tolerance to it in a short time, requiring ever bigger doses to realize the identical excessive and resulting in long-term impaired cognition, together with “delusional thinking, superstitious beliefs, and a sense of specialness and importance.”

Those would appear to ring a bell with Sam Harris, a public mental and former good friend of Musk, who publicly broke with the world’s richest man in a put up earlier this 12 months.

“Any dispassionate observer of Elon’s behavior on Twitter/X can see that there is something seriously wrong with his moral compass, if not his perception of reality,” he wrote.