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CEO Elon Musk said his ketamine prescription was beneficial for Tesla\u2019s investors in a video interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon posted online.<\/p>\nCEO Elon Musk said his ketamine prescription was beneficial for Tesla\u2019s investors in a video interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon posted online.<\/p>\n
Musk said the drug helps him manage a \u201cnegative chemical state\u201d similar to depression in the interview conducted this month that also touched on politics, content moderation on X and Tesla.\u201cFrom the standpoint of Wall Street, what matters is execution,\u201d said Musk, who runs the automaker, the rocket company SpaceX and the social media platform X. Musk argued Tesla was worth as much as the rest of the car industry combined.
\u201cFor investors, if there\u2019s something I\u2019m taking, I should keep taking it.\u201dA Wall Street Journal investigation published in January said Musk had used drugs including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, worrying executives and board members at his companies.
The report raised concerns that illegal drug use would likely be a violation of federal policies that could jeopardize SpaceX\u2019s government contracts.The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that one Tesla director grew so frustrated with Musk\u2019s behavior that she did not stand for re-election to the board in 2019.Musk responded to the Journal report on X in January, saying that he agreed to three years of random drug testing at the request of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which partners with SpaceX. \u201cNot even trace quantities were found of any drugs or alcohol,\u201d Musk said.Musk told Lemon that he had a doctor\u2019s prescription for ketamine. The billionaire estimated he took \u201ca small amount every other week.\u201dHis comments were in response to Lemon asking what Musk\u2019s ketamine prescription was intended for, and if he ever worried \u201cthat this may get in the way of your government contracts and clearances and Wall Street as well.\u201dLemon posted the interview on YouTube and X, after he said last week that Musk canceled an exclusive partnership that \u201cThe Don Lemon Show\u201d had with X.Follow the
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Elon Musk stated in a video interview that his ketamine prescription has been beneficial for Tesla\u2019s investors, as it helps him manage a condition similar to depression. He mentioned that from Wall Street’s perspective, execution is what matters and argued that Tesla’s valuation is as much as the rest of the car industry combined. A Wall Street Journal investigation had previously reported Musk’s use of drugs, raising concerns about potential violations of federal policies that could affect SpaceX’s government contracts. Musk responded to these concerns by stating he agreed to three years of random drug testing by NASA, with no trace quantities of drugs or alcohol found. He confirmed having a doctor\u2019s prescription for ketamine, taking a small amount every other week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1107,33,3,594,263,1600,1969,250,415,1991,1419,2516,543,2447,301,2342,720,817,335,1970,805,2517,2439,2389,2518,170,483,255],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-car","tag-companies","tag-cyprus","tag-doctor","tag-drugs","tag-election","tag-elon-musk","tag-google","tag-government","tag-industry","tag-investigation","tag-ketamine-prescription","tag-nasa","tag-partnership","tag-politics","tag-re-election","tag-rest","tag-social-media","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-tesla","tag-teslas-investors","tag-valuation","tag-video","tag-video-interview","tag-violation","tag-violations","tag-wall-street"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n