Elon Musk Took Ketamine Daily, Sometimes Mixing It With Other Drugs, Explosive NYT Report Finds

[Mr. Sparkle]

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Source: Mediaite.com

Elon Musk was using ketamine so frequently last year that he complained it was damaging his bladder, according to a bombshell New York Times investigation that details his escalating drug use as he became one of President Donald Trump’s closest political allies. The report, based on private messages and interviews with more than a dozen people close to Musk, claims his consumption went far beyond what had previously been disclosed – at times involving daily ketamine occasionally mixed with Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms at both private and public gatherings.

While Musk has publicly spoken about his mental health — describing “great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress” —he’s also refused the use of traditional antidepressants. He has said he was prescribed ketamine for depression, taking it “about every two weeks.” But the Times reports that those familiar with his habits described a pattern that blurred the line between treatment and excess. He reportedly travelled with a medication box containing around 20 pills, including some marked like the stimulant Adderall.

The Times also reports Musk received advance warning of employee drug tests at SpaceX, despite the company’s obligations as a federal contractor to maintain a drug-free workplace. The White House did not respond to questions about whether Musk, who held significant influence during the Trump transition, was ever tested himself.

As the report dropped Friday, Musk was preparing his formal exit from the administration to refocus on his businesses. But the Times notes that concerns had been mounting about his increasingly erratic behavior – including a salute-like gesture at a Trump rally – and his growing entanglements in personal legal disputes and romantic drama.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Such a useful drug in appropriate medical (and veterinary) settings but he is in denial to all that may be coming:

Not only his "bladder issues" but long-term brain damage:

Long-term recreational ketamine use was associated with lower gray matter volume and less white matter integrity, lower functional thalamocortical and corticocortical connectivity. The observed differences in both structural and functional neuroanatomy between ketamine users and controls may explain some of its long-term cognitive and psychiatric side effects, such as memory impairment and executive functioning.

[Irish_Dem]

4. In his most recent video, I thought Musk was looking brain damaged.

He had a very flat affect and a mask like deadpan look.
And a strong underlying rage.

[OMGWTF]

34. Curious, especially since Eloon thinks babies should all be born by Cesarian because

in his fevered mind going through the birth canal inhibits brain growth.

[FalloutShelter]

2. Drug testing is for serfs.

[we can do it]

3. Fuck the NYT and every other way too late reporting outlet.

[travelingthrulife]

7. Yup. They let Musk and DOGE tear our government to pieces while they sat on

this story until he decides to quit.

[Dock_Yard]

29. Particularly, Peter Baker (WH "chief" correspondent)

I've grown tired, and more lately ANGRY, at this dweeb's incessant equivocating every single bit of WH news as rational.
He's on MSNBC shows several times every weekday, and his bland treatment of even the most egregious shit is infuriating.

Time to boot him, NYT. Get someone younger in there with a bug up his/her ass ... someone who will DRIVE correspondents to hold these criminals accountable, and to report truth from a "society's expectations" POV, not just straight down the middle as if both sides are OK.

[tinrobot]

5. Musk is on the road to becoming the next Howard Hughes

You can't do that much Ketamine without damaging your brain.

He's going to wind up in a hotel penthouse with Kleenex boxes on his feet.

[Dave Bowman]

22. Or the next Mr Burns behaving like Howard Hughes

[madaboutharry]

6. Translation:

The President of the United States allowed an “alleged” drug addict whose addiction “at times [involved] daily ketamine occasionally mixed with Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms at both private and public gatherings,” to run roughshod over the Federal government causing destruction, chaos, ruined careers, and cutting off of aid to those in need in foreign countries.

Trump and Musk both belong in prison for their crimes against democracy and the Constitution.

[travelingthrulife]

8. Probably Trump's Adderal supplier.

[bronxiteforever]

31. This! 100%

[Puppyjive]

9. Wait

The guy, who gutted the government agencies and fired employees who were restricted from drug use, is a drug user? Give me an edible.

[gypsy11]

10. I watched a clip of him a while back

Can’t remember now when it was, but he was making some REALLY bizarre head movements. It was at some dinner with the orange shit-stain. It was crystal clear to me that he was on some pretty heavy duty drugs, waaaaay beyond occasional ketamine dosages for depression. How people can’t see that musk is a raging drug addict baffles me. Normal people (people not on drugs) don’t act like the way he does.

[BigmanPigman]

45. I just saw a video of him and he is still doing it

He got a black eye and was standing next to tRump and his eyes and face were moving in odd ways.

[Richard D]

11. Such interesing wording from the article

But the Times notes that concerns had been mounting about his increasingly erratic behavior – including a salute-like gesture at a Trump rally –

[IronLionZion]

13. I doubt drugs turn people into Nazis

it might lower their inhibitions exposing their inner Nazi.

[Richard D]

23. I can attest to that!

I was more taken by the absence of the word Nazi in the description of the salute, like it was just a generic, run of the mill salute.

[Marthe48]

17. The report could be instructions

For pretzels.

[bronxiteforever]

35. Agree. Salute-like gesture!

I saw it with my own eyes. It wasn’t “salute-like”. It was in fact a salute and an obvious Nazi one too.

[Ponietz]

12. Can't use the empathy exploit -- the genius burned that card

[ToxMarz]

14. Filed under "No Shit Sherlock"

[hadEnuf]

15. Trump allowed a drug addicted and non-elected Nazi psychopath into the heart of the American government

who did nothing but shut down vital programs, fire hundreds of thousands of government employees, enrich himself further and expose this country to an untold amount of danger.

Trump should seriously be impeached and removed for this. There is no excuse, no matter how ridiculous. None.

[republianmushroom]

16. Yes, such fine family values republicans have.

[speak easy]

18. "he's also refused the use of traditional antidepressants"

Musk is BiPolar. Traditional antidepressants are contraindicated/

[peggysue2]

19. A salute-like gesture??

Let's try this:

Musk gave a Nazi salute because he was craze-drugged, and like so many of these so-called tech wizards, thought he could get away with it. Obscene amounts of money is his/their armor.

Cue in Silicon Valley God complex, aka hubris.

A perfect mix for self-destruction and subsequent sad trombone noise coming from the now embattled Musk.

He's a victim, dontcha know?

[Dave Bowman]

24. Oh it was a Nazi salute no doubt. Anyone saying otherwise is lying and/or an idiot.

[Mr. Evil]

20. Since TSF and Muskolini

love attention and ratings, someone should create a TV show about them. Call it, 'The Misadventures of Junkie and Flunkie.'

[Blue Full Moon]

21. Hitler use to have a doctor give him a cocktail of drugs

[Dave Bowman]

25. Most high ranking nazis were drug addicts. Goering is a great example.

He always traveled with a trunk full of hard drugs. After he was captured he was in serious withdrawal and lost a lot of weight. Not that I have any empathy for that dirtbag.

[NNadir]

32. It's always bothered me that Goering was able to commit suicide before being hanged.

I'm generally against the death penalty but I make an exception for Nazis responsible for the deaths of millions. This is particularly the case for cult figures who inspire unthinking adherents to do terrible things.

I wish that was irrelevant today, but regrettably it isn't.

[Dave Bowman]

38. Yeah, it's bothering me also. In a sense he got away with it.

He didn't have cyanide on him when he was captured but he had a lot of charisma and apparently he was able to convince an American guard to get him the poison.

[SheltieLover]

26. Serious question: were people actually unaware of this? Couldn't they tell by his behavior?

[Scrivener7]

27. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[BoRaGard]

28. He has a full set of "republicon values"

[Martin68]

30. Drug-addled narcissistic, fascist, sociopathic billionaire. What could go wrong?

[Paladin]

33. Hoping for lots more info on the new "romantic drama" rumors.

Hope all the rumors are true...

[Grandmanna]

36. So they wait until the day after he leaves to tell us!!!

Why didnt NYT scoop this during the 2024 campaign?
Why wait until the day after Mush leaves?

[DBoon]

37. So does Musk still hold his top secret clearance?

and how was he even granted his clearance given this level of drug abuse?

[Dave Bowman]

39. Fucked up people like him have no business having so much power.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Just verifies what many were saying

Trump misadministration is full of substance abusers.

[JoseBalow]

41. "daily ketamine occasionally mixed with Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms"

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the K-hole
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a Rave

[Canada Kid]

42. AND SO????

You all allowed a shitfaced whackjob to assume the highest position in the land...who then enlisted another shitface worse than himself to demolish your country...and now you all are in deep trouble for years to come. Next time get out and VOTE DEMOCRATIC!

[maptap22]

43. Time for the baby-mommas to swoop in

and get full custody of their children. He should not be anywhere near them right now...not until he rehabs.

[Grokenstein]

44. The most shocking revelation in the history of mankind, I'm sure. And yet

idiots are going to read about this hear about this and tell themselves ket will make them a jee-nee-us too.

[Omaha Steve]

46. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

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