Side Effects of Ketamine Could Explain a Lot About Elon Musk's Behavior

Image by Shawn Thew / Pool via Getty / Futurism Amid his newfound role as unelected government wrecker, Elon Musk's use of the powerful tranquilizer ketamine is once again in the press. As The Atlantic reports, research into the effects of sustained ketamine use may offer some insights into the increasingly bizarre antics of the South African-born gem mining scion who's admitted to using the drug to treat depression — and who's allegedly indulged in it for recreational purposes, too. Back in 2010, English psychopharmacology researcher Celia Morgan, then a professor at University College London, published a study in the journal Addiction that tracked 120 frequent recreational ketamine users for a year. As Morgan told The Atlantic, everyone in that cohort — from those who used it three times a month on average to those who did it 20 times per month — had "profound" short- and long-term memory issues and were "distinctly dissociated in their day-to-day existence." Along with those un ... Read full article.