[haxton]

I'm no fan of Musk's, but it's so disingenuous and discrediting to say things like that.

Musk very clearly did _not_ get stoned with Joe. Taking a puff off of a joint is akin to taking a drink or two of beer. You're going to have much more of a placebo than anything.

There's no reason to lie to make Musk look stupid. He's doing that plenty well himself.

[itslennysfault]

More importantly, who cares if he did get stoned?

[freewilly1040]

It’s news. Smoking weed as a guest on a talk show / podcast is something no CEO of a noteworthy company has done before. I don’t care per se but come on, it’s obviously an attention grabbing thing to do.

[xvector]

It’s attention grabbing because people are prudes. One of the many things wrong with this country

[selectodude]

Nonsense. Plenty of CEOs drink excessively, pay for sex and do cocaine. They don't do it on video with Joe Rogan, though. That shows such a complete lack of discretion.

[rland]

I cannot tell if this is a satirical comment or not.

[Barrin92]

No it's people who are invested in Tesla being concerned about Musk's mental health and his ability to run his business. In particular because that wasn't his only scandal.

And it's got nothing to do with the US either. Do you see many German, Swiss or Japanese Ceos smoking pot and getting drunk on podcasts?

[aaomidi]

No we don't and that's what people don't really like about them. Heck I don't even know who the CEO of these companies are.

The issue is Tesla feels personal. Other cars really don't have that feeling.

[stonogo]

The people who issued him a United States Department of Defense security clearance, to start with.

At least they should. I guess Musk plays by different rules than us plebians.

[yreg]

So people with security clearance can't do legal drugs? Can they drink alcohol?

[mikeyouse]

Security clearances are granted at the Federal level -- and weed is most definitely not legal Federally.

[Reedx]

Why should they? It's much less problematic than alcohol.

[kosievdmerwe]

Because a clearance requires you to have discretion and control of yourself to maintain the secrets you learn due to it.

If you lack the self-control to not use a federally illegal drug on camera, then do you have the self-control to not leak secrets to score points in an argument or if you're drinking with a friend and they apply some social pressure, for instance? Maybe, maybe not, but it raises red flags about how trust worthy you are.

[rifung]

The reason I was told by someone who applied for security clearance is because it's a crime (federally) and they are afraid that someone could use that to blackmail you into giving state secrets.

I think it's a similar thing for illegally downloading music or whatever..

[hashberry]

Yeah, bad wording, changed it to "smoked weed" to match the NYTimes narrative: "Elon Musk Smoked Weed On Air" [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/business/dealbook/elon-mu...

[danharaj]

The hell kind of weak weed are you smoking? :^)