Elon Musk Puffs Joint, Tesla Stock Tanks

Yep, looks like a bright future ahead choking our children with hydrocarbon emissions.

The latest method to get the stock low enough to go be bought cheap and go private.

X-Runner wrote:

The latest method to get the stock low enough to go be bought cheap and go private.

This was my exact thought. I wonder if he told his friends to short the stock.

There have been so many reasons to be skeptical of Musk and his various business ventures over the years, but the thing that throws people off is seeing him take a drag off a blunt? I'd be less frustrated about the number of stupid people in this world if so many of them weren't also unfathomably lame.

Musk takes a hit? OH NO.

Kap takes a knee? OH NO.

Kap does a Nike ad? OH NO.

Someone shoots and kills a bunch of schoolkids? Crickets.

I haven't paid much attention to Tesla or the antics of Elon Musk, but this incident astounds me. The show was taped in California, and -- contrary to what many people think -- California is still part of the United States, where possession of marijuana is still generally a crime. Even a modestly competent lawyer, whether advising Musk in his personal capacity or in his capacity as CEO (and possibly controlling shareholder), could have provided him with plenty of reasons not to do this.

Avocado's Number wrote:

I haven't paid much attention to Tesla or the antics of Elon Musk, but this incident astounds me. The show was taped in California, and -- contrary to what many people think -- California is still part of the United States, where possession of marijuana is still generally a crime. Even a modestly competent lawyer, whether advising Musk in his personal capacity or in his capacity as CEO (and possibly controlling shareholder), could have provided him with plenty of reasons not to do this.

And slavery used to be legal in the US, the law does not equal morality.

Horror of horrors. Musk smoking weed is indicative of ERRATIC BEHAVIOR. Who knows what kind of damage he'll wrought when he goes on his next marijuana bender? This debauch lifestyle has no place in goodly Corporate America, which prizes sobriety, morality, and the rule of law above all else. And won't somebody please think of the shareholders???

law does not equal morality wrote:

And slavery used to be legal in the US, the law does not equal morality.

What a remarkably insightful point. Perhaps Tesla shareholders aren't aware of that. And perhaps the people who drafted Tesla's standards of conduct for employees aren't aware of it. Perhaps, too, the Attorney General, who recently revoked the Obama administration's policies regarding enforcement of federal marijuana law, isn't aware of it. And maybe federal judges -- including justices of the Supreme Court, which has upheld pertinent federal law governing marijuana -- have simply failed to consider this intriguing possibility that "law does not equal morality." And I'm sure that members of Congress, federal contract administrators, and various federal officials who might harbor ill will toward Musk, Tesla, or other companies controlled by Musk will understand that Musk's flouting of federal law is exactly like an individual's refusal to acknowledge the property rights of a slaveholder.

Wow.

To quote Thomas Jefferson, "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

John Boehner —Republican House Speaker, and upholder of Federal Laws— has come out as a marijuana supporter. He has likely been smoking since he was a wee lad. Boehner has joined a cannabis company.

BTW: Federal laws against marijuana are rather toothless. The primary restriction is that marijuana companies cannot open back accounts that are Federally insured, and that you cannot travel between states with marijuana. Here is a list of the Federal guidelines. The only item missing is that doctors cannot officially prescribe marijuana, but they can recommend its use.

1. Preventing of distribution of marijuana to minors;

2. Preventing revenue from the sale of marijuana from going to criminal enterprises, gangs or cartels;

3. Preventing the diversion of marijuana from states where it is legal under to state law in some form to other states;

4. Preventing state-authorized marijuana activity from being used as a cover or a pretext to traffic other illegal drugs or other illegal activity;

5. Preventing violence or the use of firearms in cultivation and distribution of marijuana;

6. Preventing drugged driving and the exacerbation of other adverse public health consequences associated with marijuana use;

7. Preventing the growing of marijuana on public lands and the attendant public safety and environment dangers posed by marijuana production on public lands;

8. Preventing marijuana possession or use on federal property.

You are a tool.

FFF wrote:

Musk takes a hit? OH NO.

Kap takes a knee? OH NO.

Kap does a Nike ad? OH NO.

Someone shoots and kills a bunch of schoolkids? Crickets.

NOT TRUE! There are always plenty of thoughts and prayers to go with shootings.

I think he meant another weekend of thinning the herd in Chicago. Crickets.

Roe Jogan wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnvPxvI8yXk

This is pretty lame all around. I'd laugh, but then I'd be dismissing how incredibly stupid all this is, highlighting the sheer hypocrisy of our conditioned mindset on "drugs." He took a singular puff, which he hardly inhaled, and sipped some whiskeyv(which nobody sees as an issue.) Pleeease..all of you clowns need to relax, whether it's running, or letting us in on your delusional perspective of what is wrong and right in our society. Why can't we just laugh and go "ohh elon is a human being too, funny moment in podcast history" but no, everybody gets pretend butt hurt.

It was a blunt actually you swine.

"Musk takes a hit, and so does Tesla"

His detractors should be glad he's smoking weed. Might cause him to chillll

Aside from that, the interview is pretty funny.

That's incorrect. Those guidelines, which were provided to U.S. attorneys in the Department of Justice on August 29, 2013, were specifically rescinded by the Attorney General on January 4, 2018.

Even when those guidelines were in effect, the use or possession of marijuana remained a prosecutable crime under federal law, and its illegality under federal law could also serve as a legal basis for adverse civil actions, such as termination of government contracts or employment, even where state law otherwise permitted such use or possession.

I want to stress that I'm not taking any position about the wisdom or "morality" of any of these laws. I'm simply shocked that Musk, as the CEO and key person of an important publicly-traded company currently under heavy scrutiny, would be so reckless, and I'm at least a little surprised that he would be so ignorant of the range of possible legal and practical implications of his actions. I understand that he has a certain personality cult that enjoys his often outrageous conduct, but there is apparently also a growing sentiment that he may have gone too far -- or, worse, that he is too far gone -- to the point that he is jeopardizing the future of his companies as well as his relationship with them.