Being a massive shithead also explains a lot of it. Including the drug use.
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I have a lot of ketamine users in my town and many highly functioning ones and it's very clear that the drug has long tail disassociative effects. They are so disconnected and zombie like despite seemingly functional.
I say this as a psychonaut myself - long term K use is pretty scary but people are afraid to shit on K because if not abused it's seems to have a lot of powerful positive effects on many.
Life is literally an exercise in balance and homestasis. Too much of anything is almost always bad in the long term.
My mother had to take it for a nerve condition and it fucked her up. Ruined parts of her nervous system and she required physical therapy to be able to grasp objects again.
She has now been in several car accidents since cause she goes into hazes and acts differently. I'm not sure it has good side effects other than being an incredibly strong tranquilizer and disassociative.
Lots of drugs are considered highly by their users but this one seems to have some pretty rough sides to make it sound at all positive to me.
It's not drugs, he's just a douche
Could be both
Totally
Have you met his mother? That also explains a lot.
I'm not huge into drugs, can someone explain to me why a billionaire takes ketamine? Isn't it a prescription painkiller?
Shouldn't he be smoking brainstem of an endangered rainforest frog, or some nameless lab chemical synthesized personally for him?
It's a dissociative drug that has long been used as a field anesthetic because there's a very wide range of doses that are both effective and non-lethal. It's shown promise in recent years as a treatment for depression and certain other conditions that are resistant to traditional treatments. Ketamine is also sort of fun to do recreationally for the affirmation dissociative effects. Elon Musk is basically a drug addict at this point. He's abusing it way too often and is healthy or safe to do
I don't know about ketamine but I have been around people on Amphetamines. He acts like they did. So a guy trying to run 3 companies at the same time would presumably use amphetamines to have the time. You can go for days without sleeping.
I'm currently taking 80mg ketamine troches and can verify that I am not a sociopathic Nazi.
Who cares what the cause of the behavior is? It is unacceptable.
That should be enough. No need to even try to explain of empathize with it.
But it is telling that the richest man in the history of mankind acts like this. People should see that wealth does not equate to strength, intelligence, good politics, etc. But instead people see wealth as a way to get away with anything they want, even if it is completely embarrassing stuff that no one with self respect would even think about.
Very true. Fuck the rich
I dunno man, I've done ketamine and it didn't turn me into a nazi.
Maybe he's just a bad person.
There's a difference between recreational K use and stuffing it down every opportunity you get. If you've done K you know how it looks and Musk looks like that 100% of the time.
Narcissism is the main problem with him, K made it worse.
Yep it just makes him unpredictable and more dangerous.
Hey look, the media blaming drugs for stupid people doing stupid shit.
This isn't the ketamine. He would probably be even worse without it.
I mean.. we all have that friend who does mushrooms or drops acid and thinks they are the savior of the human race.
The only difference is that the next day they have to go work their shift at IHOP rather than waking up and being the richest person in the world.
Those are true, non-addictive, psychedelics and the world would be a better place if more people were given them with a proper guide. Ketamine is significantly different and addictive.
Along with those unsettling side effects, the psychopharmacology researcher and her team also found that regular users scored very high on delusional thinking scales and seemed to be convinced that they were receiving secret messages sent to them alone
Sounds like him but honestly money and power is probably enough to explain his delusional behaviour
Ketamine is the least of this dude's problems.
Imagine coming out of a K hole and finding that you’ve caused the most powerful nation in the world to collapse.
Musk = POS Nazi wannabe!
They gave my cat ket before they euthanized her. She looked absolutely blissful, but certainly in no fit state to run a government.
I mean this in the nicest way, but your cat would make an excellent replacement for the current governor.
Hell I'd make a dead cat leader of DOGE over the current one
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Ketamine, like any drug, should be thoroughly researched. Whether good, bad, or mixed, the knowledge would be useful.
In any case, I think that being wealthy is the most dangerous drug of all. It frees you from the consequences of your actions. Being invulnerable from society, prevents you from knowing what it means to be harmed. It is why rich folks tend to be assholes, since they don't understand the reality of being human. They are more akin to space aliens or dragons.
...at this point, excessive wealth is something I believe to be a drug that harms society, not individuals.
There's an insane amount of research into ketamine. That's why they literally use it regularly to sedate children.
It's very safe and well tolerated. This shit isn't about ketamine.
There's a big difference between anesthetic use and recreational abuse tho.
There isn't much study on recreational abuse and the few that exist are very damning, from neurotoxicity to straight up brain lacerations. Of course this needs more studying but theres very real chance K abuse has real damage.
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