Don Lemon Grills Elon Musk About Drug Use, Hate Speech on X and His Meeting With Donald Trump in Contentious Interview: ‘Choose Your Questions Carefully’

variety.com:

William Earl Don Lemon has released his hour-long interview with Elon Musk, after the journalist claimed that it upset the X (formerly Twitter) owner to cancel the launch of a new interview show the pair had been planning together.

During one section of the interview, Lemon asked about Musk taking a puff of weed on The Joe Rogan Experience, and then inquired about the tech mogul’s ketamine prescription. “It’s pretty private to ask somebody about a medical prescription,” he said. “There are times when I have a negative chemical state in my brain, like depression, I guess.

Depression that’s not linked to any negative news, and ketamine is helpful for getting one out of a negative frame of mind. I’m not a doctor, but if someone has depression issues, I suggest they talk to their doctor about ketamine versus SSRIs.” Lemon then asked if Musk ever abused it, which Musk denied, saying he took a small amount every other week.

Things got especially contentious during the last stretch of the interview, when Lemon asked Musk about advertisers pulling advertisements from X as a result of not wanting their content to be near what they perceived to be unmoderated hate speech.