Elon Musk’s drug use so apprehensive his enterprise associates and firm board members that they requested him to go to rehab and even take a break from working to “dry out” from varied substances, together with LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and ketamine, based on a brand new report from The Wall Road Journal.
Musk’s shut pal, former Tesla director Larry Ellison, additionally the billionaire cofounder of Oracle, went as far as to induce Musk to journey to Hawaii through the winter of 2022 to “chill out from work and dry out from the medication,” the outlet reported, citing folks conversant in the supply.
Ellison’s proposal got here amid growing considerations amongst Musk’s buddies and associates that Musk’s drug use was getting worse, per The Journal.
At a celebration within the Hollywood Hills across the time of Ellison’s supply, one one who attended the occasion stated Musk drank ecstasy in “liquid kind” from a water bottle after having his private safety clear the ground for privateness, the report continued.
The Journal reported the “quantity” of Musk’s drug use has contributed to a tradition of peer strain amongst Musk’s buddies and board administrators of his varied corporations that created an “expectation” for them to make use of medication alongside him to keep up the social standing gained by being near the billionaire.
Musk, Ellison, and their legal professionals, Alex Spiro and Christopher Muzzi, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.
Musk, who’s reportedly one in all a number of executives in Silicon Valley to strive his hand at psychedelics like ketamine, has additionally indulged in LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and magic mushrooms, based on in depth reporting from The Journal.
Regardless of proclaiming that he would not “like doing unlawful medication,” Musk’s drug use has beforehand put him and his corporations on discover.
After he smoked marijuana on an episode of a Joe Rogan podcast, NASA made SpaceX pledge in writing that the corporate is following federal pointers on drug use within the office. The corporate spent $5 million in taxpayer cash to correctly prepare its workers on the foundations, the Journal reported.
The billionaire additionally shared on X that he has a prescription for ketamine, which current analysis has instructed can be utilized to deal with despair.
Consultants beforehand advised Enterprise Insider that the mixture of reported laborious medication Musk used comes with a number of well being dangers, particularly at his age as a 52-year-old.
These embody irregular heartbeat, incontinence, and psychosis if the consumer has bipolar dysfunction, which CNBC reported Musk as soon as instructed he needed to his Twitter followers in 2017.
