Elon Musk Denies Reports of Illegal Drug Use, Says Random Drug Testing Backs Him Up

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.