What’s your poison? All of the greatest minds have one. Freud loved cocaine, Charles Dickens dabbled with opium, Steve Jobs once claimed that LSD was “one of the two or three most important things I have done in life.” It turns out that Elon Musk’s drug of choice is ketamine, a controlled substance usually reserved for tranquilizing horses.
Elon Musk “microdoses” the substance, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The CEO has told people he microdoses ketamine for depression, and he also takes full doses of ketamine at parties, according to the people who have witnessed his drug use and others who have direct knowledge of it,” the report says. Musk has also previously called for psychedelics and ketamine to be promoted as an alternative to prescribed antidepressants. Last year, he tweeted: “I’ve talked to many more people who were helped by psychedelics & ketamine than SSRIs and amphetamines,” adding that, “people should be open to psychedelics.”
Musk previously faced criticism after smoking weed with Joe Rogan on his podcast in 2018. The drug is legally sold in California, but federally illegal, which resulted in Musk and SpaceX employees being subjected to regular drug tests after the incident, as well as prompting a shake-up of Tesla’s board of directors.
All of this could explain Musk’s recent lightbulb moment, which came last week, when he decided to organize a cage fight between him and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After a week of back and forth between the billionaires, Musk’s mother, Maye, has weighed in on the fight, after she took to Twitter to tell people not to encourage it, claiming that she “canceled the fight.” “A verbal fight only,” Maye suggested. “Three questions each. The funniest answers win. Who agrees?” Cockburn’s money is on Musk, as long as he brings the K…
