Elon Musk Posts His Own “Negative” Test For Drugs

The Daily Beast reports:

Elon Musk has gone from being one of the top advisers to the president of the United States to just another guy posting his drug test results on the internet. The Tesla chief had denied a bombshell New York Times report claiming he used ketamine, ecstasy, magic mushrooms, and Adderall while acting as Donald Trump’s chief cheerleader on the 2024 campaign trail. Early Tuesday, Musk appeared to further bolster his denials by sharing the results of a urine test on X.

Musk appeared to hit back at that claim Tuesday by publicly posting the results of a test. The read-out shows Musk tested negative on June 11 for more than a dozen drugs, including ecstasy and ketamine, at a lab in Austin, Texas. Drug and biomarkers are detectable in urine for about two to three days, according to an online information sheet from United States Drug Testing Laboratories, whose affiliate, Fastest Labs of South Austin, collected the sample.

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Elon’s drug test is suspicious, and I’ll tell you why.
I review lab UAs on a daily basis at work, and there are some unusual things about it: https://t.co/3outtSjYsF

— Rachel Zader (@RachelZader) June 17, 2025

Creatinine is a marker of how hard the kidneys are working; the # will be higher if the person is less hydrated. <20 is usually an attempt to dilute the test to defeat it. For reference, I’d expect to see an adult male in the range of 20-300mg/dL. This is quite low.

— Rachel Zader (@RachelZader) June 17, 2025

Anything under 50mg/dL is usually considered suspicious, because adult men have higher ranges. I usually see around 100-250, and only if someone is pounding water right before do we usually get results like this. (Unless they have a kidney problem.)

— Rachel Zader (@RachelZader) June 17, 2025

Second, In order to judge whether a test is valid, it would have to be OBSERVED. I see that a woman collected this test, which tells me that this was absolutely an unobserved drug test, which aren’t even accepted by a lot of places because it’s so easy to cheat these.

— Rachel Zader (@RachelZader) June 17, 2025

Third, Elon conveniently exempted his second page of his post, which usually shows more about the sample that we’d want to know in order to judge whether this sample is even real: Specific gravity, urine color, temperature. Fake urine often shows abnormalities here.

— Rachel Zader (@RachelZader) June 17, 2025

Oh, and another thing – there’s no indication chain of custody was followed. We only accept drug tests directly from a facility, not from a client.
Also, Elon could’ve just taken tests until he got a negative, and then released just this one. It doesn’t really indicate anything.

— Rachel Zader (@RachelZader) June 17, 2025