Elon Musk hit back at the Wall Street Journal on Sunday after a bombshell report by the paper accused the billionaire of using illegal drugs and said executives at his companies were worried by his alleged fondness for cocaine, ecstasy, shrooms, ketamine, and LSD.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk sneered that the Journal was “not fit to line a parrot cage for bird [poo emoji],” and asserted, “after that one puff with [Joe] Rogan, I agreed, at NASA’s request, to do 3 years of random drug testing. Not even trace quantities were found of any drugs or alcohol.”
Musk’s post referenced an incident in 2018 in which he smoked marijuana on Rogan’s podcast, which led the Pentagon to review his federal security clearance, which was tied to his company SpaceX’s work with the U.S. AirForce.
Musk’s denial that he’s regularly getting blasted raises the prospect that his troll-like behavior as the new owner of X/Twitter is just his true personality and not the result of mind-bending substances.
In the Journal’s Saturday report, the paper claimed that a former director at Tesla was so disgruntled with Musk’s alleged drug consumption and erratic behavior that she refused to seek reelection to the board. People with knowledge of the situation said that Linda Johnson Rice, who left Tesla in 2019, asked the board to look into the billionaire’s supposed use of LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms, but was ignored.
The Journal noted that illegal drug use would most likely break federal policies that could put SpaceX’s billions of dollars in government contracts in question along with tens of thousands of jobs.
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