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

‘NOT EVEN TRACE QUANTITIES’

The Wall Street Journal had reported that Musk’s alleged use of LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy had execs at SpaceX and Tesla worried.

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk gestures, as he attends political festival Atreju organised by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) right-wing party, in Rome,
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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.

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