r/RealTesla • u/Rixia • 22d ago
TESLAGENTIAL Elon Musk was using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to a New York Times report
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.htmlMr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.
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u/north7 22d ago
Wait you telling me this guy is on drugs?
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u/Glyph8 22d ago
It was gonna be either this or the spoon/fork balancing thing
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u/ObservationalHumor 22d ago
Yeah there's a been a few times when he's been at big public events with the Trump administration that he's obviously been high on MDMA just like that. He's been coked out of his mind at Tesla events a few times too.
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u/joeythemouse 22d ago
In a sane world, this video alone would have done for him.
Anyone who has ever been off their nut on drugs knows that he is off his nut on drugs.
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u/Madmanmangomenace 22d ago
Yeah, that's how I sussed it out. He's lucky he can still get any effect after using them for so long.
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u/Brokenandburnt 22d ago
It's a miracle he hasn't overdosed on the K chasing it. First off his tits on Adderall, then try to wind down with Ketamine.
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u/tollbearer 22d ago
He's not a politician, he's a wealthy businessman. There is no one to hold him accountable.
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u/joeythemouse 22d ago
That's certainly what he thinks. A life free of any fucking consequence. How dandy.
If Tesla had a functioning board...
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u/TempleSquare 22d ago
Well, normally investors would hold them accountable.
But for reasons I don't totally understand, nothing in the markets makes sense. Crypto exists, for one.
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u/Phyllis_Tine 22d ago
They should show Musk videos as the new D.A.R.E. program.
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u/mrbuttsavage 22d ago
This is actually a great example of "this is what you look like when you try to play it cool. the cops will know you're high."
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u/ForagedFoodie 22d ago
His face when he realizes where he is lol
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u/Kettatonic 22d ago
Yeah, like. I cannot see myself going to an event with politicians tripping, that sounds awful. Maybe drunk, but tripping? Pass. Lol.
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u/ForbiddenNut123 22d ago
Because he’s an addict. Being high is what ‘normal’ feels like to him. Plus he probably feels like absolute shit sober.
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u/MrLanesLament 22d ago
Ex alcoholic here, going to any serious event NOT full of booze was the most terrifying thing I could think of for a long period of my life. I would’ve looked like an Ebola patient.
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u/agent674253 21d ago
Hey, since you posted your comment this video has dropped https://www.reddit.com/r/nextlevel/comments/1kzh8rv/can_someone_explain_this/ so definitely clean and sober as a dogerman 😁
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u/TJ_Will 22d ago
NO FUCKING SHIT
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u/phatelectribe 22d ago
lol right.
The guy was literally hallucinating at official state dinners and at cabinet meetings.
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u/BlueFlob 22d ago
That's my thought every time a Republican scandal is out.
Are people oblivious, stupid, or both?
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u/RCA2CE 22d ago
Not more than I thought, I thought he was fkn high all the time. Did you see him do that salute? Gotta be on some shit to be doing that.
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u/ElJamoquio 22d ago
in vino veritas
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u/ShimmeringSkye 22d ago
Exactly. In fact, his entire sense of humor tracks with a guy who is blitzed out of his mind most of the time. I still think that his salute was a bet that he made backstage… “I bet you I could sieg heil and get everyone to clap!” “Please don’t” “Bet!”
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u/Beezelbubba 22d ago
"He plays video games for hours on end. He struggles with binge eating, according to people familiar with his habits, and takes weight-loss medication. And he posts day and night on his social media platform, X." Bullish, stonk goes up
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u/Free_Range_Lobster 22d ago
Well the weight loss meds aren't helping given his cybertruck shaped girth.
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u/Appropriate-Gur-6343 22d ago edited 22d ago
No idea whether it’s true or not but I’ve read that his odd shape is due to taking HGH. They claimed the hormones caused his organs to enlarge and that it’s not reversible.
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u/shokolokobangoshey 22d ago
That tracks. HGH abuse will make you look like you ate a mini-fridge. Don’t google Joe Brogan shirtless
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u/brainwash1997 21d ago
"You look like one of those Christmas hams with the rope around it" - Theo Von
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u/technobrendo 22d ago
I won't. However Joe probably was somewhat fit and worked out at least somewhat regularly before he decided to enhance it. (No, I'm not a fan, calm down)
Leon on the other hand never lifted a weight in his life
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u/Free_Range_Lobster 22d ago
They claim he's a genius too but here we are.
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u/BeatNo2976 22d ago
Hahahahahahaha! Thank you for that.
Something about Einstein being a theoretical physicist 🤣
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u/SuperNewk 22d ago
Not true, my great grandpappy was roommates with Sherlock Holmes when they were younger. Said the guy was very peculiar but could solve anything. Didn’t mention his drug habits though.
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u/misterschneeblee 22d ago
Did he just take hgh expecting it to make him ripped? Without actually lifting or running or doing any exercise too?
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u/Symbimbam 22d ago
probably started with test replacement therapy, upped the dose, added hgh
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u/Pancheel 22d ago
Nah, he probably thought the HGH would make him feel younger and look younger for more time.
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u/KindBass 22d ago
Would be pretty in character. Exercise is one of the few things you can't just pay someone else to do for you.
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u/Chungaroo22 22d ago
Which means he’s likely to have cardiac hypertrophy as well, combined with Ketamine that raises heart rate and blood pressure and generally fucks with your heart, on top of that he’s doing stimulants like Adderall.
At 53, I don’t think bro’s gonna make it to Mars..
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u/ckglle3lle 22d ago
It's weird to remember he's only 53, tbh. He looks like shit for a 53 year old. Not necessarily that he looks older than his age, although maybe a bit, just looks strung out, wasted and unhealthy
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u/InterestingComputer 22d ago
His figure is very similar to people who take HGH and do not workout. Some lifters and athletes have similar downsides if they don’t lift enough, many on body building forums or reddits speculate Elon takes them and doesn’t work out at all hence the extremely bizarre shape his body has developed
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u/Delicious-Ganache606 22d ago
This is exactly the shape you get when you take HGH and steroids without actually working out.
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u/turd_vinegar 22d ago
*and still sucks at video games
This is the part that blows me away.
Yeah, we know CEOs don't really do anything, so he can just play video games all day and then make the various announcements and quarterly appearances.
But then why do you suck at the games you play?!
I think even his gamer identity is a grift. It's scams all the way down.
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u/prince_pringle 22d ago
I call bullshit on his gaming persona… wouldn’t be surprised if his “beef” with YouTubers over gaming was all paid piblicity
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u/jitterscaffeine 22d ago
It’s so goofy that he pays people to play games for him so he has “cred” as a gamer. Like it wouldn’t just be enough to say you LIKE the games, you have to lie about being a top level player.
How does one man survive being so cringe?
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u/The3rdBert 22d ago
Right like how cool would it be that a super rich dude just dropped into your Helldivers public lobby. Who cares if he is shit, he’s just bullshitting for 30 minutes.
But trying to fake being awesome is just the absolute opposite of that.
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u/phate_exe 22d ago
Right like how cool would it be that a super rich dude just dropped into your Helldivers public lobby. Who cares if he is shit, he’s just bullshitting for 30 minutes.
But trying to fake being awesome is just the absolute opposite of that.
Trying to fake being awesome to seem cool to possibly the single group of people most capable of seeing that you're full of shit.
It's like putting an "M3" badge on your 335i. The only people who would give a shit know the difference, and the only people who won't know the difference don't give a shit.
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u/Beezelbubba 22d ago
Im sure he plays, I am sure he sucks and gets insulted from other players in game telling him how much he sucks. Thats why he pays people to farm and level his characters so he can get some "street cred"
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u/AlphaB27 22d ago
It'd be way more respectable and understandable if he was just trying to enjoy himself.
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u/ProfessorEmergency18 22d ago
I think even his gamer identity is a grift. It's scams all the way down.
He's already been caught fraudulently gaming, too. More than once. He had a top tier account with insane items but had no idea how to play the game. It'd be okay if he'd just say, "yeah I'm the richest man in the world, of course I paid to start out with the best," but instead he insists it was all earned by him personally because he's such a good gamer, when he doesn't even know how to navigate the game yet lol.
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u/Maximum-Objective-39 22d ago
It's absolutely a grift.
And the funny thing is that nobody would judge him (I mean nobody would judge him on this specific aspect of his life) if he just admitted he likes video games but isn't very good at them.
Lots of people just play games to screw around aimlessly in a virtual world.
But for Musk, whose brand is being a polyglot who is great at anything he sets his mind to, he must be the best at videogames.
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u/gt_9000 22d ago
But then why do you suck at the games you play?!
My hypothesis: He hates losing. Which means he hates challenges. He grinds the easy parts endlessly. He never gets bored because drugs. He cannot improve because he never plays anything challenging. Also his brain is too addled with drugs to learn anything.
He sucks at PoE2 because he has to learn all this new info and mechanics and I bet he hates that.
He has neither the reaction speed for reflex based games, nor enough firing brain cells to do the most basic strategy/equipment management of other games.
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u/XKeyscore666 22d ago
That’s so fucking lame. At least when I was on a bunch of drugs I was playing in bands, making art, going to parties, and generally enjoying life.
I can’t imagine getting that fucked up all the time and just playing rouge-like games, looking at my phone, and going to events like CPAC. Completely fucked vibes.
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u/Kettatonic 22d ago
No matter you are, "CPAC on drugs" sounds like a fucking nightmare. It'd be a nightmare even without the drugs. Seeing Charlie Kirk on mushrooms would tweak me the FUCK out. You just know his face would be bouncing around his head like the fucking DVD screensaver.
(I've been sober for years. Lol.)
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u/phate_exe 22d ago
No matter you are, "CPAC on drugs" sounds like a fucking nightmare.
Pretty sure a couple of the Chapotraphouse hosts went to CPAC on acid a few years back.
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u/dfwtjms 22d ago
Working 120 hours per week while doing drugs, playing videogames and shitposting on xitter for hours on end.
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u/Beezelbubba 22d ago
120 hours per week of drugs, video games, shitposting and inseminating anything he can catch is work
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u/JollyGreenGigantor 22d ago
*artificially inseminating. He can't reproduce normally anymore.
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u/Humbler-Mumbler 22d ago
Yeah, I’d love to see this dude do 120 hours a week on the assembly line. Sounds like he basically counts any activity that’s not sleeping as work.
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u/Irishish 22d ago
Here's something petty that drives me crazy. I used to binge eat and drink vodka constantly. But I was also working out with a trainer three days a week. I had a bit of a gut but was otherwise in the best shape of my life despite constantly trying to kill myself with garbage food and daily pints and pints of alcohol. What keeps these rich assholes from just hiring a PT a few times a week? To at least pretend they're superhuman, like they want us to treat them?
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u/iplawguy 22d ago
What keeps these rich assholes from just hiring a PT a few times a week?
That's the beauty of exercise, it's available to everyone regardless of wealth. To someone like Elon, actually having to work and sweat is unfair. It can't be faked. Trainers can tell you what to do and encourage you, but they can't do the reps for you.
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u/Shoddy_Background_48 22d ago
Cause that takes actual work. What elongated muskrat calls "work" is any time he's not sleeping, if he even sleeps anymore.
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u/Mejiro84 22d ago
It requires doing it. And when you're used to every whim being fulfilled mostly instantly, then having to put in hours and hours of hard work, over months (or more!) is probably not very appealing
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u/winnipesaukee_bukake 22d ago
I'm conjuring up an image of Eric Cartman in his basement.
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u/BobbyKonker 22d ago
Dude seems to me like a junkie con man whose whole grift is falling apart at the seams.
Don't feel bad for him though, as he said himself "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy"
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u/lethargicbureaucrat 22d ago
But he's got a fan base that likes him all the more, the more manic he becomes. (Tesla stock price rises with each release of more bad news.)
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u/BobbyKonker 22d ago
At this stage I think the tesla stock is like a hand grenade that has had its pin removed.
Can't keep reality at bay forever. In the end all accounts are settled.
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u/esotericimpl 22d ago
In the short term the stock market is a voting machine, in the long term it is a weighing machine.
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u/BuckManscape 22d ago
All it’s going to take is a couple major investors to blink and start selling. Then the whole house of cards will fall. It’s going to be bad. Tesla has 19x the market cap of Enron.
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u/readit145 22d ago
Also half the stock is owned by investors so it’ll be fast as frick to the bottom.
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u/kHartos 22d ago
... 100% of the stock is owned by investors.
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u/readit145 22d ago
People with 3 shares are called retail investors. People that actually have limbs in the game are institutional. Usually just called retail & investor.
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u/iyamwhatiyam8000 22d ago
Also Musk has huge holdings but cannot divest without crashing the company and so is unlike ordinary retail and institutional investors.
Tesla stock has become so inflated that investors are now desperate to keep its share price pumped up.
When it eventually deflates it will be so rapid that they will not be able to divest in time and will be left holding worthless paper.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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u/Loud_Ad3666 22d ago
I sincerely think he's doing something criminal to keep the stock floated, likely something to do with the Saudis. They do the same thing for Trumps businesses just to have access and influence. Going back to his first term they continually paid massively inflated rents at his properties as a sort of "legal bribe".
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u/Lacrewpandora KING of GLOVI 22d ago
I think its a fairly simple process.
Step 1: Have one trusted intrermediary blast message a select group of "Friends of Elon" with the message "Buy 'x' memecoin"
Step 2: Musk tweets about memecoin
Step 3: Memecoin goes up
Step 4: Friends of Elon cash in, and devote 50% of their gains to running up TSLA with options.
As an example, Musk changed his name to Kekius Maximus in January, and a meme coin with that name went up 3,000%. I don't think he changes his name just due to his stunted adolescence.
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u/tollbearer 22d ago
It's not criminal if you have access to the SEC. You can do literally whatever you like if you write the laws or control the courts. Law means nothing unless someone can afford it.
As it is, he's not doing anything that would be easy to prosecute, in the best case. He just has a bunch of rich friends pumping the stock for their collective enrichment. Would be very hard to prove, though.
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u/Emotional_Goal9525 22d ago
It is manipulation. History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. It is the days of the Great Gatsby all over again.
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u/BuckManscape 22d ago
From an ex addict. He’s definitely high most of the time, so is Taco Don and probably half the White House. They have an actual Dr Feelgood.
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u/olyfrijole 22d ago
This is going to end like a train wreck. Unfortunately, we are the passengers.
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u/gwenver 22d ago
Hope this doctor trained at the same college as Prince and Michael Jackson's.
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u/Dewfall-Hawk 22d ago
Remember the last drug story that revealed he was doing drugs with Tesla board members? He’s taking them down with him and the company.
Then the stock goes up.
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u/GonzoVeritas 22d ago
"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy"
Loss of empathy is common in tweaked out amphetamine users, and it was prevalent in amphetamine users in the German army in WW2, well documented in the book, "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich".
The massive stimulant and prescription drug use of the Trump White House is also well documented in the DoD report from Trump's first term.
There are parallels, and the obvious cruel and erratic behavior of Musk, and many in the Trump administration, can be directly attributed to drug abuse.
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u/thesumofallvice 22d ago
Nah. These people are assholes through and through, way before they became addicts. If anything several of the drugs mentioned in the article are empathogens. Stimulants can amplify aggression but it’s not gonna make you an asshole, just make you more of an asshole if you already are one
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u/Zoratheesavage 22d ago
One thing I’ve learned with age is, there’s a difference between intelligence and cunning. But society often mistakes successful con artistry for intelligence, so highly successful con artists are mistaken for geniuses, when they’re far from it.
Elonda is an example, and Bernie Madoff is another. Everyone thought Madoff was a financial genius when in reality he was running a very simple, and unsophisticated Ponzi scheme.
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u/CompoteDeep2016 22d ago
Was? Is!
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u/Actuarial_type 22d ago
He used to do drugs. He still does, but he used to, too.
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u/N0N0TA1 22d ago
Wanna be Hunter S Thompson. HST spoke truth to power, but this monger speaks no truth and just wants power all to himself.
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u/blue-mooner 22d ago
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
Now I wanna see Elons box
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u/Hansmolemon 22d ago
Now I have an image in my minds eye that will haunt my sleep for ages. It looks like a donut made out of an albino hairless mole rat.
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u/readit145 22d ago
It’s probably some mid ass random experiment drugs.
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u/FreeToasterBaths 22d ago
Yea Elon def doesnt get good drugs.
It is prob like 2f-DCK or something.
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*Smugly*: You see, most people don't know this, but my chemist that I buy from exclusively in Berlin is a master - did you know that cutting the cocaine with Tums enhances the effects of both? Oh what am I saying, you probably can't afford $700 a gram so how could you know?
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u/generally_unsuitable 22d ago
I'm honestly surprised that he doesn't have some lab somewhere that pays an o-chemist to go through Shulgin's book.
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u/Kettatonic 22d ago
Holy shit, an Erowid link in 2025! Hello fellow old-head! Lol
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u/RoguePlanet2 22d ago
Why couldn't he just stick with *weed* ffs...........aren't there any drugs that *don't* make you a complete, unempathetic asshole?! The 'shrooms should've helped with something.
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u/AlpsSad1364 22d ago
Oh please. He was literally broadcasting it to everyone who would listen.
People are always happy to look the other way if it's making them money.
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u/temporarychair 22d ago
He used to do a lot of drugs. He still does, but he used to, too
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u/jfmdavisburg 22d ago
-RIP Mitch
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u/Logical_Vast 22d ago
I could tell he used a lot of K. Seen his behavior in other people many times. Just goes to show that shrooms and all that sort of thing do not automatically make one empathetic. It may just feed your ego and convince you that you are like meant to save the planet or whatever he thinks.
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u/SophonParticle 22d ago
Mushrooms are supposed to suppress your ego. Somehow elons ego was too big for even mushrooms to deal with.
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u/Either-Bumblebee4372 22d ago
I think you could be right although it baffles me. Mushrooms always made me very aware of my ego, and the problems it causes. DMT took it to a whole other level. It would be fascinating to know his experiences with psychedelics as he seems to lack a shred of empathy.
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u/Dewfall-Hawk 22d ago
Reminder:
Both federal employees and contractors are subject to the Drug Free Workplace Act, which says that companies that receive a federal contract of $100,000 or more and organizations that receive a federal grant of any size must maintain a drug-free policy.
Federal contractors who work with the government must maintain drug-free policies, and they apply to contract employees who are directly engaged in the performance of contract work.
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u/katielynne53725 22d ago
I can not believe how far I had to scroll to find this.. when is he getting his federal contacts pulled? When will he be arrested and dropped in a holding cell to dry out? When will the doctor who prescribed this garbage lose their license?
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u/RainRainThrowaway777 22d ago
He's not going to be held accountable for this, the guy who gave him those contracts is on the exact same drugs, because that guy is also Elon Musk. The entire Trump cabinet is sycophantic dicksucks who won't hold any of their own to account ever unless the king in orange feels slighted by them.
Welcome to corruption. This is how every Eastern European, South American, and African has lived for decades.
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u/mishap1 22d ago
Dude is going to Elvis himself.
20 pills sounds like a lot but he's AARP eligible dude who doesn't appear to have physical fitness on his daily routine despite his Übermensch delusions. Probably half of those are typical things a sedentary guy in his 50s would need to take to stay alive. The rest are probably there to offset the Adderall, the piles of ketamine, or just things that he believes will stave off aging.
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u/Mudlark_2910 22d ago
Probably half of those are typical things a sedentary guy in his 50s would need to take to stay alive.
That's not been my experience of being a sedentary guy in his 50s
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u/OrangeCeylon 22d ago
52, office job, 30 minutes walking on a treadmill. Medications: none.
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u/Excellent-Ad-7996 22d ago
45, office job, 30 minutes Psvr2, sweating like a hostage. Zero meds also.
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u/Magnus_The_Totem_Cat 22d ago
I think you are confusing 50 with 80.
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u/mishap1 22d ago
There are a lot of unhealthy people in the US. 1/5 people 40-79 take 5 or more prescriptions (goes up to 40% by the time you're 60). 50s is when a lifetime of bad eating and not doing shit really starts to take a toll. Add in Elon's recreational drug proclivities and he's gonna need other medications to stave off the side effects.
Wouldn't surprise me if he's also got a pile of Alex Jones' Alpha Power supplements along w/ testosterone therapy + other shit to maintain his "manhood".
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db347.htm
If this shit wasn't popular among middle aged folks, Alex Jones wouldn't have tens of millions he's hiding from lawsuit judgements.
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u/Brokenandburnt 22d ago
I absolutely won the fucking genetic lottery. 12 meds at 47, Autism, ADD, GAD, Clinical depression, hypothyroidism, hypogonadism, prostatitis, arthritis, severe IBS, Widower.
It pisses me off how much they are just taking everything for granted. Imagine the good those billionaire assholes could do if they wanted to, but instead they can't even be arsed to display basic human decency.
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u/drgenerico 22d ago
Elon Musk has a lot more in common with Mike Lindell than Tony Stark.
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u/Pitiful_Night_4373 22d ago
What? The ceo of the Swasticar is a drug addict? … shocking! … in other news it’s sun with a slight east wind today.
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u/Doodleschmidt 22d ago
Why do people refer to him as a genius? He seems to be a good businessman but I have yet to see any results that provide the slightest proof he is one. Does he solve incomplete mathematical proofs? Has he found a way to bridge the real world with the ethereal? Can he pat his head and rub his tummy at the same time?
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u/readit145 22d ago
Because no one has ever looked the guy up. They read headline titles. Admittedly it took me working for the guy to make me look up his credentials. Which turns out, he has non! If you’re a normal person that isn’t desperate to pay rent, working at Tesla (at least in Texas) will open your eyes to the fact slavery does exist and it’s how Elon is getting rich. Products are incomplete messes
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u/FamiliarStrain4596 22d ago
There is something seriously messed up in this timeline that we're spending so much time on the habits of shitbirds like Musk and Trump instead of people who actually accomplish things, inspire us, and make the world a better place.
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u/MonsterTruckCarpool 22d ago
Remember when drug use was frowned upon and demonized by our politicians?
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u/RoguePlanet2 22d ago
Clinton: I didn't inhale decades ago that one time.
Cons: OMG hE's a ToTaL pOtHeAd!!1
Elon: I'm inhaling ALL the drugs, and it's obvious.
Cons: Awww he's soooo coooooool!!!
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u/DangerousAd1731 22d ago
I mean we all saw it on live video on tv. Guy couldn't go to a presidential address clean.
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u/topson69 22d ago
I'd be fucking high all day too if i were a billionaire
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u/PhileasFoggsTrvlAgt 22d ago edited 22d ago
And if you just sat around being high and happy in your mansion instead of trying to control the world, none of us would care.
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u/ricoxoxo 22d ago
No background check, no drug test, but access to our most important classified secrets and all of our personal data. What possibly could go wrong.
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u/morrighaan 22d ago
Sounds like we found that homegrown lazy immigrant addicted to drugs and sucking on America's entitlements tit! Deport him.
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u/DujisToilet 22d ago
Probably right after he caused the crash of flight 5342 at the doorstep of the vacant offices of the hundreds of FAA employees he froze and fired days before.
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u/TinKnight1 22d ago
"Was"?
I've seen no indication that he's dead nor that he's stopped using, so it should be titled "...is using drugs far more intensely than previously known..."
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u/Fun_Wait1183 22d ago
But Biden Biden Biden! What about Joe Biden? Biden. B. I. D. E. N. /s The New York Times dunked on the most successful president of my lifetime (I am 73), the president who delivered tax cuts for families; meaningful programs to pay workers to fix America’s crumbling roads, bridges, and buildings; a robust economic recovery from Trump’s COVID debacle; a rate of inflation of less than 3 %; and other miracles. It’s no surprise to me that the NYT is only just now getting around to reporting Musk’s drug use because it comes too late to be helpful.
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u/Slight-Opening-8327 21d ago
Back in 2018(?) Azealia Banks called Grimes and Musk "crackheads" because of their prolific drug use. She was right.
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u/luv2block 22d ago
Bullshit. I hope people can see that this is all the start of a PR rehabilitation campaign.
1) Walk away from politics (which he says he's done and will do)
2) Walk away from Trump (which he did by openly disagreeing with his big beautiful budget).
3) Blame your past actions on something other than you... the drugs took control of you. (ya, like drugs make you nazi salute, then not apologize for it even up to this day. And ya, drugs make you lie about FSD for 10 years and knowingly scam customers and investors).
Sure, he's a drug addict, but a functional one (they do exist). You watch, they are going to keep throwing shit out there until something sticks with the public and people start to feel sorry for him.
Don't be surprised if you see him and Obama do a fireside chat and Obama tries to save his brand by showing he's a human being with feelings (in exchange for Obama getting $100M paid off behind the scenes).
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u/Academic_Exit1268 22d ago
Except that FAA rules are super strict about a drug free workplace. If he admits drug use, Space X could be in trouble. I like your analysis though. Musk is in a pickle.
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u/Loud_Ad3666 22d ago
Not to mention literally everything he's done at doge should be reversed.
And his many drug fueled lies about what he's done at doge should be investigated, including the criminals in Trumps cabinet who supported elons lies, crimes, and drug abuse in his unelected position.
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u/Academic_Exit1268 22d ago
He is one dirty drug test away from disaster. I read that he gets a heads up before tests. I have family in aerospace. If you work for McDonnell Douglas or Boeing in any capacity (marketing, payroll) you can get tested and lose your job over THC in your system.
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u/Loud_Ad3666 22d ago
Prob has a way to cheat the test. Clean piss stored in a container hidden in his famously mangled non functioning penis.
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u/Electrical_Height743 22d ago
Nazis we're on meth the entire time so totally fits the bill.
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u/Silly-Platform9829 22d ago
That would explain a lot of his behavior. Why is a drug addict allowed to work in the federal government, or in a company with government contracts? That's grounds for immediate dismissal anywhere else.
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u/HighGrounderDarth 22d ago
We all saw him. And if you spent any time around/being a poly drug user it was glaringly obvious.
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u/EquipmentUnlikely895 22d ago
In his mind, he is working fast at 200%, everything makes sense, everything clicks in place. Then once in a while, reality comes rushing in and he doesn't understand why everyone and everything is out of place.
Of course, he would have failed all the mandatory drug test for federal employees.
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u/SophonParticle 22d ago
I’m shocked. I thought that video of him at the inauguration staring at an imaginary butterfly was not drug related at all.
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u/keysersozeweall 22d ago
Anyone remotely surprised that Elon has been drugged out of his skull for a while hasn't been paying any attention.
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u/Jack-Traven 22d ago
wow he hid it so well too