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.
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.
Not that I disagree with what you wrote, but tell this to those people sitting in prison for a bag of weed or other bullshit charges.
The fact that they were unjustly imprisoned isn’t a good reason to waste taxpayer money throwing this guy in prison.
Why do you think another injustice is justified by the injustice they suffered?
You ARE saying it’s bad that there are non-violent drug offenders in prison, right?
I don’t think its an injustice for a guy who tried to kill a plane full of people to spend time in jail. The fact that he’s trying to pin the blame on mushrooms that he took days prior, and the fact that people buy that (further stigmatizing psilocybin in the eyes of the public), makes me feel that he deserves more than a slap on the wrist. Would you feel any different toward a drunk driver who nearly plowed into a van full of people just because he’s sorry and a white professional with a family?