WATCH: Elon Musk admits to using ketamine 'once in a while'
The Tesla, X and SpaceX boss raved about how the anesthetic is “helpful for getting one outside of a negative frame of mind."
FILE: Elon Musk. Picture: Heisenberg Media via Wikimedia Commons
Elon Musk featured on a recent episode of ‘The Don Lemon Show’ where he got candid about... drug use, making headlines around the globe.
Musk admitted to using ketamine "once in a while" which is a dissociative anesthetic typically used and medically prescribed for the induction and maintenance of anesthesia.
Ketamine can also be prescribed as a treatment for depression and pain management.
The Tesla founder added that he only takes ketamine when it's prescribed to him by a doctor typically when he is in a “negative chemical mind state."
Musk added that the drug is “helpful for getting one outside of a negative frame of mind" but using it often "is not a common thing."
"I’m typically putting in 16-hour days. That’s normal for me and it’s rare for me to take off even a weekend day, so I don’t really have a situation where I can be not mentally acute for an extended period of time. I can’t really get wasted because I can’t get my work done. If you use too much ketamine you can’t really get work done and I have a lot of work.”
- Elon Musk, The Don Lemon Show
The SpaceX boss did not say that he had been diagnosed with depression, but admitted there are times when he suffers “sort of a negative chemical state” in his brain.
He did confess this was “like depression,” which ketamine helps with.
Watch this part of the interview below.