High tech: From microdosing shrooms to spiritual retreats and chemsex parties, how Silicon Valley is becoming the new Wall Street when it comes to drug use
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From Elon Musk smoking marijuana on Joe Rogan‘s podcast to Steve Jobs dabbling in psychedelics, Silicone Valley is no stranger to drug use.
But a new report has laid bare just how rampant illegal and legal substance use has become in the tech world – with executives the creative edge over competitors, power through insane shifts and party all night.
While cocaine use is synonymous with Wall Street, the report outlined how Silicon Valley’s drugs of choice appear to be more powerful psychedelics like LSD, MDMA (ecstasy), mushrooms, and ketamine – as well as legal stimulants like Adderall.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is rumored to indulge in magic mushrooms while Musk is reportedly fond of MDMA (ecstasy) and ketamine.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk smoked cannabis on The Joe Rogan Experience in 2018, prompting NASA to perform a safety review of SpaceX. His drug use has escalated since then, reports say, to regularly include ketamine, MDMA, and mushrooms.
Ketamine is a medical-grade anesthetic that is used to euthanize animals and to sedate people in hospital settings. It also has a reputation as a party drug because it induces psychedelic experiences at high doses. Recent research has shown it has promise for treating depression.
But the drug use spreads far beyond the boardroom. Even rank-and-file workers have reported ‘micro-dosing’ on small amounts of psychedelic drugs during work hours to improve their focus and creativity – claims that only have anecdotal evidence to back them up.
Some tech figures like Thiel have invested heavily in psychedelic medicine, too.
The Silicon Valley elite give a nod to this research and echo the language of psychedelics as medicine when they describe their drug use.
But insiders paint a different picture: drug-addled sex parties, on-the-job dosing, and professional repercussions for refusing to partake, according to the report.
This trend has sparked concerns among investors and board members at some of the tech giants, the report outlined, as senior staff have reported quitting because of their discomfort working in an environment where drug use is the norm – not just after work, but during the workday too.
In many cases, tech leaders have self-reported that they use psychedelics like LSD, MDMA, magic mushrooms, and ketamine. In other cases, the people around them have shared about their habits.
One Tesla board member declined to pursue re-election because of her concerns about Musk’s drug use.
Besides smoking cannabis openly on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2018, Musk has been open about his use of the powerful psychedelic tranquilizer ketamine, which has been ‘causing alarm‘ among other board members of Tesla and SpaceX.
Others in the Valley have let their drug use guide them away from tech.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has gone on the record in the past about his use of small amounts of ‘magic’ psilocybin mushrooms.
Psilocybin mushrooms, also known as ‘magic mushrooms,’ are now decriminalized in Colorado and Oregon, meaning individuals can possess a small amount without fear of arrest. The California cities of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland have also decriminalized psilocybin mushrooms.
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Digital marketing startup founder Tim Sae Koo told Ynet that after he had a transformative experience with psychedelics in 2014, he realized he had only started his business to gain his mother’s approval.
‘Through exploring the psychedelic realm, I gained clarity that my entrepreneurial journey had originated from a place of personal wounds,’ he said.
After this revelation, Sae Koo sold his company.
But he hasn’t strayed far from tech, and he now runs psychedelic retreats for tech entrepreneurs in Costa Rica, where they ingest the DMT-containing brew ayahuasca.
For others, mixing drugs with work has not been so smooth.
Musk’s Tesla has a reportedly lax attitude towards on-the-job drug use, including some employees who come to work high on cannabis or psychedelics.
Former California Tesla factory employee S.O. Svensson reportedly indulged freely in his off-hours but was booted after trying to sell drug-infused brownies to a fellow employee who turned out to be an undercover drug enforcement agent.
He received no support from Musk or the company, Ynetnews reported.
The dark side of this drug use has exploded into public view, too, in several notable incidents.
Reports suggest that the former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s 2020 death was linked to his prodigious ketamine and nitrous oxide use.
Before CashApp founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death, he was known to be part of a sex-and-drugs swinger party lifestyle in San Francisco. His autopsy revealed cocaine and ketamine in his system.
The late Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, was open about his LSD use. Jobs said it was one of the most important things he had ever done.
Tim Sae Koo founded a digital marketing startup in Silicon Valley, but in 2014 a profound psychedelic experience led him to sell the company.
Tim Sae Koo now runs Reunion Ayahuasca Center in Costa Rica, where tech entrepreneurs come to take the powerful psychedelic brew ayahuasca, which contains the chemical DMT.
The man accused of his murder, Nima Momeni, was a technology adviser who seemed to blame Lee for involving Momeni’s sister Khazar in this world of sex and drugs.
Khazar was a no-show at her court hearing for a DUI this week.
Psychedelic drugs have stolen the spotlight in recent years, away from the former drug-of-choice for the Silicon Valley elite: stimulants.
For years stimulant ADHD medications like Adderall and Ritalin have fueled marathon workdays for coders and programmers who labored under brutal deadlines.
These habits persist, according to a 2023 study that showed 80 percent of tech execs surveyed were using medications – either with or without a doctor’s supervision.
Thirty-four percent were using stimulant drugs.
Even though ‘mind-expanding’ psychedelic drugs have become the preferred substances of the Valley, the reasoning behind it is the same: Investors demand big returns, which means not just hard work but also creative thinking.
‘Investors don’t want a normal person or a normal company,’ BuildBetter.ai CEO Spencer Shulem told Ynetnews. ‘They want something extraordinary, but you’re not born extraordinary.’
The substance use isn’t limited to the public figures.
As reported by Ynetnews and other outlets, there is a culture among the tech elite of pressuring people into drug use.
Sometimes that pressure is not outward, but rather a clear and unspoken message that this is what you have to do to be considered trustworthy in the upper tiers of power.
As Emily Chang reported in her book Brotopia, drug-fueled sex parties among the Silicon Valley elite have a double-standard when it comes to gender.
In previous reporting about some of the Silicon Valley sex parties, women working in the tech industry have described an environment where they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Refusing to participate in the private parties where MDMA and other drugs are on offer risks labeling oneself prudish.
This has serious professional consequences too, in terms of lost job opportunities.
When male execs attend, they are applauded. Men in tech have likened attending these parties to a day on the golf course, in terms of professional networking.
When women do, they lose respect. But if they don’t attend, they risk being considered untrustworthy.
It is time to directly confront the Silicon Valley cultists and demand FBI, Congressional and SEC investigation!
The Documented Characteristics of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists and Tech CEO’s:
A horrific phenomenon of cultural depravity and white-collar crime is going unchecked in Silicon Valley because Silicon Valley controls the media and the politicians that are usually supposed to check these kinds of things. Millions of pages of news reports, documentaries, interviews and legal transcripts prove the following to be true:
Elitist Cult. Silicon Valley elitists believe they are better than everyone else. Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins founder: VC Tom Perkins, said that poor people must be “Nazi’s” for not accepting the “superior intellect” of VC’s. Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins VC Vinod Khosla, took over California’s favorite public beach, bribed the White House for “green cash” and got sued for arrogance by a horde of public interest lawsuits. Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins founder Ray Lane was indicted for tax evasion. Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins boss John Doerr was sued for sexual office abuse and running a “frat house”. Most of the VC’s and tech CEO’s in Silicon Valley are charged with ethics breaches.
Prostitutes. Silicon Valley males hire more hookers and “rent-boys” and fly more sex workers into the Bay Area than any other city in America. Google’s and Tesla Investments executives were killed in sex and drug romps with hookers. Google’s Eric Schmidt ran a huge “sex penthouse” and promotes infidelity and “anti-marriage”. Google’s search engine rigging boss died at the hands of one of his hookers. The Silicon Valley VC’s had the Rosewood Hotel built at the end of Sandhill Road as a place to take interns and hookers to for sex. Underage sex efforts operated by these VC’s and Tech CEO’s have created the “Pizzagate” phenomenon.
Rapists and Sexual Coercion of Employees. Young interns are “sent up the hill” by Stanford to the VC’s Sandhill Road offices to become sexual playthings for the VC’s at the Rosewood Hotel. Ellen Pao sued Kleiner Perkins over the sexual “rape culture” that they promoted. Thousands of women have written books and articles about the sexual intimidation they are subjected to by Silicon Valley VC’s and their tech CEO’s. VC’s Joe Lonsdale, Micheal Goguen and hundreds of others have been charged with rape and sex trafficking. Stanford University gets “endowments” and “gifts” for hushing rape culture and intern-fluffing up.
Assholes. Fraternity House Take-What-You-Want culture is re-percussively promoted in the bars, clubs, meetings, conferences and emails of the VC’s and CEO’s. The TV Show: Silicon Valley, underscores the point of the dangers of infectious asshole-ism in Silicon Valley.
Clones. They assemble those around them that have the same stereotypical facial structure. In a room full of ordinary people and Tech VC’s, the VC’s faces stand out as Hollywood-type character-cartoon duplicates of each other.
Sexual deviance and extremism. Google’s founders have all had extreme sex scandals involving cheating, 3-way sex, divorces over abuse, forced anal sex and other outrages. Their teachers at Stanford have had to quite over their sex scandals. Their willingness and infatuation with sexual extremes defines them as moral degenerates who care little about laws and ethics.
Insider Dysfunctional Parents. The majority of the VC’s and Tech CEO’s come from rich dynastic families who are cultism-like devoted to “the family bloodline” and run by male oligarchs who believe in a rape culture/oligarch ethos. This belief system is passed on to their children. The oligarch parents threaten to cut endowments to Stanford University if Stanford punishes their son’s Frat Houses for date rapes.
Tone Deaf. Silicon Valley Tech people exist in a conceptual ideology reinforcement bubble by never interacting with, or reading information or news from, anyone outside of their group. VC Tim Draper spent vast amounts of money trying to make Silicon Valley it’s own country in order to systemize the Silicon Valley tunnel-vision bubble. They want to secede from America because they are offended by normal people who they consider to be low-class and unworthy.
Murders. Rajeev Motwani taught the Google founders how to build Google and was found, mysteriously, floating, dead, in his Silicon Valley swimming pool. Silicon Valley’s Gary D. Conley reported John Doerr and Elon Musk for corruption and was found with a bullet in his head behind Beale Air Force base. Three top Tesla engineers reported corruption at Tesla Motors and then suddenly died in a plane crash next to Tesla’s factory in San Carlos. There are over 100 mysterious deaths associated with people who had conflicts with Google, Kleiner Perkins and other Silicon Valley oligarchs.
Arrogant. Self-Centered Narcissists. Elon Musk has spent over a billion dollars buying exclusive Google, Twitter, MSM and Facebook hype about himself. Every Tech CEO has a multi-million dollar PR agent assigned to make them look like “Gods of Industry”. They regularly hold “Babes and Ball’s” parties and sex parties in Woodside that require women to beg for their money. They were trained to be “assholes” and “abusive dominants” via the Stanford Rape/Frat Culture.
Misogynists. All White-Male-Controlled with frat house pasts. Women are used As Sex Objects and Window Dressing. The largest number of anti-women news stories, jock/bro blog reports and charges for abuse come from Silicon Valley. VC Steve Westly’s CEO friend is notorious for kicking his girlfriend hundreds of times because she “sassed” him. Almost of of their Divorce filings include abuse charges against the man.
Manipulation of Employees. Silicon Valley cartel companies practice Scientology-like indoctrination and “cultural programming” of employees. These highly impressionable naive young employees are kept in “controlled environments”, sent to “mindfulness programming workshops” and told what kind of political opinions they should have. Tight-knit groups of females experience synchronized menstrual periods over time, cohesive Google and Facebook employee groups engaged in decision-making discount dissenting viewpoints in the interests of consensus, and that couples who stay together long enough begin to look alike. A new study has captured another group phenomenon in Silicon Valley and chronicled in humans’ natural habitat: “group brain synchrony”. This is a CIA-like brainwashing technique exploited to get all Google/Facebook/Twitter employees to rapidly adopt the same political views.
Racists. Silicon Valley companies have the lowest rates of hiring, or promoting blacks, in America even though they have a high population of blacks at the edge of their community.
Male insecurity issues. They use TED-Talks, SXSW and Syncronicity Events as self-promoting hype in which to act like an apostle of a tech religion. They buy Tesla cars as a badge of arrogance and mock any male who does not own what they own or who who did not go to Stanford or Yale. These pretentious and ostentatious boys are more inclined to brag about penis-size than family.
Blacklisting. In the AngelGate Investigation and Silicon Valley No Poaching Class Action Lawsuit, Silicon Valley was exposed as an insider club that black-lists those who look different or are not part of the boys club.
Politically corrupt. Silicon Valley has bribed more politicians than any other domestic region in history. They promote more immigration in order to get cheap labor for their tech companies. They steal their technology and bribe politicians to eliminate patent protections for small inventors that they steal from. Political Corruption and Bribery Is The Norm for these boys. Silicon Valley created a CIA knock-off called “In-Q-Tel” in order to use CIA technology to manipulate elections at Google, Facebook and Twitter. The 60 Minutes Episode called: “The Cleantech Crash” is about their multi-billion dollar scam using the Dept. of Energy as a slush-fund. They refuse to allow their MSM to report on their corruption and crony kickbacks, ie: Tesla Motors Funding, Off-shore tax evasion, Hooker networks, etc.
Collusion. In the AngelGate Investigation, the Silicon Valley No Poaching Class Action Lawsuit, and hundreds of other cases, Silicon Valley was exposed as an insider club that colludes to rig valuations, stock markets and employee poaching. They operate in herds within their peer group. They are not inclined to independent thinking. Kleiner Perkins has been caught placing moles and saboteurs inside competitors start-ups. They operate in herds within their peer group. They are not inclined to independent thinking.
Stock Market Criminals. Stock Market Pump-and-Dump, Flash Boy Algorithm Manipulation, Insider Trading, Market Rigging. The Securities and Exchange law violations and FTC monopoly law violations are vast in number.
Burning Man Sex-and-Drugs Devotees. Silicon Valley frat boys have a huge participation in the date-rape goings-on at Burning Man and buy extensive pheromone and skin contact delivery animal-tranquilizer drugs to use on young Burning Man girls.
Minimal Regard For Consequences. Although their PR agents promote them as “green” and “socially positive”, it is all hype to get tax waivers and government hand-outs. Mark Zuckerberg’s take-over of San Francisco General Hospital’s brand was entirely a scam to get him a $1 billion dollar tax evasion deployment. The Silicon Frat Boys act on impulse and try to buy off the collateral damage later.
Closeted homosexuals. Using the tremendous funds they have at hand from their exclusive monopolies in public media, they push their trans-gender agendas through their bought-and-paid for politicians. This has resulted in a generation of sexually confused children who believe that they should cut their penises off. The top bosses at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Tesla and other companies are lying to the public about their sexuality and using hired wives, known as “beards”. If they lie about something so basic, one has to wonder what else they lie about.
Thieves. They steal most of their technology from small inventors who can’t defend themselves. They get inventions from Indian engineers and then ship them back to India before the employees can get any stock or IP rights. The tech CEO’s send their VC friends to competing start-ups to spy on competing technologies and steal it. The VC’s say they are just doing “due diligence” but they are actually sucking the competing start-up dry of IP and staff and making a clone of it under another name.
There are so many other awful things about the people of Silicon Valley. You get the picture. Silicon Valley is a swamp and a cesspool.
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