A federal judge on Monday ruled there would be no prison time for a former Alaska Airlines pilot who had taken psychedelic mushrooms days before he tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 day ago

    Absolutely

    Shrooms are out of your system very quickly

    This is bullshit, and I’d wager that his family have connections

    I doubly agree with you about the skin colour thing

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      21 hours ago

      Shrooms might be out of your system, but there can definitely be after affects that come about hours after you think you’re “done” tripping. Anecdotally, it happened to me. Took some shrooms with friends one day, had a great time, came down without issue. Later that night (roughly 16-18 hours after the trip) I experienced something that broke my psyche for a while.

      I won’t go into details, but I 100% believed I got sucked into a horrible alternate reality and was trapped. I wound up jumping out an open window on the second floor to “escape” and had a full on psychological breakdown. After several days of ego death, I decided it had to have been residual effects from the shrooms, because I just don’t think I can accept the alternative.

      Granted, that is not a full 40 hours like this pilot. But before my experience I would have told you it’s not possible to have hallucinations from a psychedelic hours after the trip had ended. Psychedelic’s literally make new connections in your brain, it’s not like those all just disappear when it leaves your system.