Elon Musk Loves Ketamine, And Now Everything Makes Sense To Me

Yeah, everything about Twitter makes fucking sense to me now.

So, I first had ketamine about 20 years ago. It made me hallucinate, vomit on my date, and then wander the streets of Queens in a daze for about 8 hours until I was lost. Since this was prior to the era of smartphones being everywhere, I had a hell of a trip trying to get home.

I also lost a friend to ketamine addiction which resulted in cancer. He was not much older than me when he passed away and I genuinely believe that the K killed him. He had an addiction that cost upward of $1,000 a month.

I’m currently watching three of my other friends kill themselves slowly with the drug, to the point that one needs a liver transplant and another has already been diagnosed with the beginning of renal failure.

Needless to say, Special K and me have a very jagged relationship.

There are very few drugs that I know as intimately as ketamine.

Ketamine has been a part of my life for the majority of the past two decades, and not in a good way. While I’ve occasionally partaken in it, the truth is that the appeal of the drug never really made sense to me. It was just there.

In small doses, you’ll feel happy and floaty. Trauma suddenly takes a backseat, hence the “forgetamine” nickname. You don’t feel joint pain, or really much of anything. I get the medicinal effects. I really do, which is why I’m not against legalization and therapy with it.

But, getting that dose right on street drugs is hard. That’s why most people end up in a K-hole. And that’s where my appreciation of the drug ends with a bang.

A K-hole feels fucking terrifying because you can’t figure out where your body starts and ends. Your sight tends to feel strobe-y and delayed. Oh, and you might not know where you are. Then, you get the enjoyable feeling of your stomach lurching as you projectile vomit everywhere.

If you take too much, you will collapse and be paralyzed for an hour or so — or until someone feeds you sugar.

I honestly wish that most of my friends would dislike ketamine as much as I do. But, they don’t. They like it too much, often to the point that addiction takes control of them.

When I heard about Elon Musk using ketamine, everything made sense.

Yep. Elon Musk is using ketamine for depression, but is ketamine starting to mess with him? Speaking as someone who’s seen friends get fried on it and who’s been on it, I’m a not sure ketamine is the right choice for him.

Having been on the stuff myself, I noticed that there are certain things that tend to happen when you use ketamine for long periods of time at doses that are too high. And the parallels I’m seeing further my opinion.

• First, there’s the whole “thinking outside the box to the point of others looking at you funny” thing. I can’t help but notice how many of his business decisions don’t make sense to anyone but him. Like, he’ll buy a company for $44 billion without any plan to pay that sum back, then bail on the bills that keep it functional. That’s a perfect echo of a lot of ketamine users I know who throw parties costing upward of $20,000 but “forget to pay” DJs or ask DJs to “volunteer” their time.
• Then there’s the decreasing impulse control. As someone who has a hard time with impulse control, I credit my long-term drug use for worsening it. Look at how often he ends up railing against people on Twitter or pushing anti-trans propaganda on the platform as a way of getting back at Grimes. Back in the day, I actually noticed that Musk would do very slick dealings involving getting government sponsorship. He was a force to be reckoned with. Nowadays, his impulses regarding tweets are just…embarrassing.
• He’s becoming increasingly narcissistic. Now, this could just be a matter of the news picking up on his narcissism and self-centeredness more. Or, it could be that the ketamine is slowly messing with his brain chemistry in a way that makes him act more child-like. I’ve noticed that a lot of ketamine addicts I know start getting more and more spotlight-crazy as their addictions worsen. It’s not a flat rule, but it’s definitely a thing. Then again, it could just be that we’re seeing what’s always been there, exacerbated by the constant adulation of his muskrats.
• At times, it also seems like he’s losing his grip on reality. Is it me, or is he losing touch when it comes to his PR? No one would think his online behavior is normal, right? Speaking as someone whose ketamine-using friend has told them that he is “exploring the fifth dimension” with an inanimate object, this also tracks.

Oh, wait. While I was researching this, it also says he’s taking the full dose of k when he partiess. Welp, that’s alarming.

Ketamine can do serious, permanent damage to your brain.

No, like, really. It causes memory failure and spatial cognitive decline. In large doses, it has been linked to lower impulse control. The fact that one of the most powerful people on the planet might be addicted to this stuff does not bode well for us.

Ketamine therapy can do wonders, but it has to be done right. Otherwise, it’ll ruin your life — just like any other drug on the market. It doesn’t matter who you are. An addiction will turn you into someone you don’t want to be.

Go ahead. Ask me how I know.