Elon Musk Was Drug Tested By the Federal Government After Weed Filled Podcast Episode With Joe Rogan

Elon Musk opened up this week about the fallout from his infamous appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2018.

Musk sat down with the NELK Boys, a popular Canadian-American YouTube group, for an exclusive interview on the Thursday edition of their Full Send Podcast. The conversation quickly turned to Musk’s viral appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience in September 2018, which featured the Tesla founder smoking a joint.

“Remember when you smoked weed on Joe Rogan, did you get like a lot of backlash for that?” host Kyle Forgeard said, referencing Musk’s September 2018 appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.

“I did get a lot of backlash cause it’s like still federally illegal,” Musk laughed.

“It was pretty nutty actually. I had to — well, because, you know, uh, so I had to have like random drug tests and stuff after that to prove that I’m not like a drug addict,” he added.

“Really?” Forgeard asked.

“By who though, who gives you the random drug tests?” co-host Aaron Steinberg said.

“The federal government,” Musk clarified, “like, because SpaceX has a federal government contract, so. And it’s still illegal federally. So like — like the SpaceX, you know, competitors were like, ‘Hey, look at — why are you doing anything?’ You know, ‘Look at him smoking — just like brazenly smoking weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast.'”

“So they even drug test you for weed?” Forgeard asked.

“Yeah, they drug tested me for everything,” Musk concluded.

Listen above via Full Send Podcast.