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On the Nelk Boys and John Shahidi’s “Full Send” podcast on August 4, Elon Musk revealed he received “a lot of backlash” for smoking weed on-camera during his 2018 appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. Claiming he only took “one puff,” Musk shared that the federal government still drug-tested him for a whole year “because it’s still federally illegal.”
Musk wasn’t the only casualty of his one puff — The “whole of SpaceX,” as he described it, was affected by that one fateful interview clip. “Space X has federal government contracts, so our competitors were like ‘Why aren’t you doing anything? Look at him brazenly smoking weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast,'” Musk explained, also noting he got tested for everything under the sun. Tesla’s stock price took a hit as a result, and making matters worse, he had to make a concerted effort to convince his investors he wasn’t struggling with substance use. “I don’t know how to smoke a joint,” Musk laughingly said.
Two years before the debacle, Musk made an off-hand joke about drug use when a Twitter user asked for advice on being productive without much sleep. “Large amounts of crack,” he quipped. Luckily for Musk, that comment mostly flew under the radar!
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