Elon Musk posted what appeared to be his drug test results on X early Tuesday. And even though multiple credible news organizations have said Musk is a regular user of illicit drugs, it looks like the billionaire oligarch tested negative for the drugs he’s reportedly been using, including cocaine, ecstasy, and ketamine.
Musk tweeted simply “lol” with an image of the report, which appears to have been conducted by a company called Fastest Labs of South Austin, in Austin, Texas. The image posted by Musk states it was a urine test collected on June 11 and received by the lab on June 13. The report is dated June 16.
The report shows Musk tested negative for benzodiazepines, amphetamine, and opiates, among the other drugs he’s reportedly used in the past. Musk has been most closely associated with ketamine, a drug that reportedly impacted his bladder, according to an article from the New York Times in late May. The billionaire has said he was prescribed ketamine for depression years ago, but more recently said he hasn’t touched it in a few years.
lol pic.twitter.com/pMe3YfXFxS
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 17, 2025
Musk accused the New York Times of “lying their ass off” about his history of drug use. But the newspaper wasn’t the first to report on it. The Wall Street Journal was the first major newspaper to write about Musk’s alleged history with LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and ketamine back in January 2024. The article cited sources within his companies who were concerned that Musk’s drug use may be hurting his businesses.
Musk posted the drug results himself on Tuesday, which means we have to take his word that it’s an accurate representation of reality. That will obviously be difficult for some people, given Musk’s history of being dishonest about a litany of topics. For example, when Musk insisted there was widespread fraud happening at the Social Security Administration and 150-year-olds were collecting Social Security checks, it was a claim that made it into President Donald Trump’s first speech to Congress during his second term. As it turns out, Musk’s claim wasn’t true, and his top DOGE spokesperson, Katie Miller, insisted on perpetuating the lie, according to new reporting from the New York Times.
NASA, which oversees Musk’s lucrative SpaceX contracts, insisted it saw “no evidence” back in January 2024 that he had used drugs. But the New York Times also reported last month that Musk had been given advance warning about drug tests mandated by the government for the billionaire to keep his security clearance.
It seems unlikely that Musk’s tweet with drug test results will put the debate to rest. Especially since the Tesla CEO spent the past year under a harsh spotlight after he endorsed Trump, handing out over $250 million to get him and other Republicans elected. Musk appeared on quite a few stages to promote Trump, giving the public more than a few opportunities to see him act strangely.
There are just way too many odd events to count, from Musk’s bizarre jumping at a Trump rally in the summer of 2024 to Musk’s Nazi-style salutes on the day of Trump’s inauguration to his erratic chainsaw stunt at CPAC in February. Then there was Musk’s farewell in the Oval Office, where he kept spinning his head around and gazing into the distance as Trump was talking. It wasn’t the first time he’d done that in recent months.
But who knows? The defense from Musk fans is often that he’s on the autism spectrum and comes across awkwardly. That could very well be true. But it seems like most people have someone with autism in their lives who doesn’t act as erratically and unhinged as Musk.
