Elon Musk trying marijuana isn't shocking, but our hypocritical response to it should be
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Elon Musk may be in trouble, but it has nothing to do with the relatively young CEO taking a puff of marijuana on camera, as many have been led to believe. Tesla’s stocks tumbled 6 percent Friday, coincidentally after Musk took a singular toke of weed , but if the stock’s decline was related to his one puff rather than the deeper problems plaguing one of his companies and the man himself, that would have been because many in the media deeply mischaracterized the act and the use of marijuana.
The Fox affiliate in Denver — arguably the nation’s marijuana capital — for instance, ran “ Tesla stock falls as CEO Elon Musk appears to smoke marijuana on video ,” while The San Francisco Chronicle went with the typically pun “Tesla stock take a hit after Elon Musk appears to smoke weed.” On CNBC Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management dubbed this marijuana moment “reckless” before declaring all of Tesla’s board “negligent.”
And over on CNN an anchor declared, “Mr. Musk seems to be kind of high,” before portraying the Musk interview as a raucous frat party: “He was also throwing about a flamethrower — a samurai sword also came into this.”
But the frenzied reactions to Musk’s interview highlight a bigger problem plaguing the nation: Many of the nation’s premiere news outlets, pundits, academics, politicians and senior government officials remain willfully ignorant about marijuana.
Ignorance may be bliss inside one’s home, but when the nation’s elites share their uninformed assumptions or outright anti-pot bias with millions of people, it crosses a line. So, first some facts about marijuana.
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I find it interesting that the article said "the nation’s elites share their uninformed assumptions or outright anti-pot bias with millions of people.... when most of these same people have smoked in their lives. I find it just hypocritical. To me it looks like they are enjoying knocking him down a few notches.
And when these same people go home and have 2 or 3 drinks are they really any better than Musk?
Does anyone else see it the same way?
For quite a while many of the top Wall St. people were using Cocaine. After all-- it gives them energy and keeps them alert. (Or so they claim).
And being an expensive drug, using it is a sort of status symbol in some crowds....
(Don't know if its still that popular with those people....).
Or take their Xanax, or...
No, I don't think they're any better.
BFD. Completely legal in the state he consumed it.
I could care less what he smokes, I'm more concerned with the bizarre behavior he's been exhibiting, between maing unfounded allegations about one of the 'Cave Rescuers' to spiking his stock by declaring he was going private with his stock (which he hasn't and the SEC is investigating and might very well charge him), to coming back around and taking another swing at the cave rescuer, all during the time his company is failing to meet expectations (and self-inpsed targets).
Seems he might be having asome type of mental break. He has stated he works 120 hours per week.....that is a long schedule, even to a workaholic.