{"id":126,"date":"2019-12-23T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2019-12-23T23:10:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:10:24","slug":"elon-musk-makes-weed-joke-after-tesla-stock-jumps-above-420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/elon-musk-makes-weed-joke-after-tesla-stock-jumps-above-420","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Makes Weed Joke After Tesla Stock Jumps Above $420"},"content":{"rendered":"<div _ngcontent-c27=\"\" class=\"fs-author-wrapper\">\n<div _ngcontent-c27=\"\" class=\"fs-author-name contrib-byline-author speakable-author\"><a _ngcontent-c27=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rachelsandler\/\" data-ga-track=\"contrib block byline\">Rachel Sandler<\/a><span _ngcontent-c27=\"\"><span _ngcontent-c27=\"\" class=\"contrib-byline-type\">Forbes Staff<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div _ngcontent-c27=\"\" class=\"short-bio\">I cover breaking news.<\/div>\n<div _ngcontent-c27=\"\"><\/div>\n<div _ngcontent-c27=\"\">\n<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\"><strong>Topline<\/strong>: After Tesla\u2019s stock jumped to a record $420 per share on Monday, CEO Elon Musk cracked a joke about marijuana, poking fun of his infamous \u201cfunding secured\u201d tweet that landed him in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission last year and cost him his position as chairman at Tesla.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhoa \u2026 the stock is so high lol,\u201d Musk tweeted after Tesla\u2019s stock price rose above $420. April 20, or 4\/20, is a popular holiday celebrating cannabis culture, and using 420 to reference marijuana has become a widespread meme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whoa \u2026 the stock is so high lol<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1209142364473843713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He also replied to a Bloomberg tweet about the stock price with the crying laughing emoji.<br \/>\nAt its height on Monday, Tesla shares were trading at $422.<br \/>\nWhile the electric car company has had an up-and-down year, investors appear confident in Musk\u2019s ability after the company posted a surprise third-quarter profit and is making progress in building its first international plant in China.<\/p>\n<p>Key background: Musk\u2019s Twitter presence has always been steeped in meme culture and subtle marijuana references. His most infamous tweet in August 2018\u2014which jokingly said that he was \u201cconsidering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured\u201d\u2014set off a firestorm of criticism for what some called his impulsive Twitter use and landed him with fraud charges from the SEC accusing him of misleading investors. He eventually settled with the agency and was ordered to pay $20 million and step down as chairman of Tesla.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rachelsandler\/2019\/12\/23\/elon-musk-makes-weed-joke-after-tesla-stock-jumps-above-420\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel SandlerForbes Staff I cover breaking news. Topline: After Tesla\u2019s stock jumped to a record $420 per share on Monday, CEO Elon Musk cracked a joke about marijuana, poking fun of his infamous \u201cfunding secured\u201d tweet that landed him in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission last year and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[28,21,22,26,25,24,23,27],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elon-musk-weed-joke-420.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wise420.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}