• @remer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And this dude hadn’t slept in 40 hours. Who the hell take mushrooms for the first time with severe sleep deprivation while in the cockpit of a commercial airliner!? This guy was unstable to begin with. Hopefully this doesn’t set back the public and regulatory perception of psilocybin and all of the therapeutic benefits it has.

    • squiblet
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      361 year ago

      From what I understand he had taken the mushrooms 40 hours prior, for his first time ever, and that’s why he’s been awake all that time. However he was also enroute to pilot a flight, which probably wouldn’t have worked out.

      • @Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
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        311 year ago

        I call BS. Mushrooms don’t keep you up and… call me naive but… FLYING A FUCKING AIRPLANE shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. Why not take a sick day?

        • XIIIesq
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          241 year ago

          It can be tough to sleep mid-trip, but 10-12 hours or more later? You have other issues/substances if you can’t sleep.

        • squiblet
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          41 year ago

          Sure, staying up 2 days and then trying to kill 85 people on an airplane is not a normal reaction.

      • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        31 year ago

        He hadn’t slept in 40 hours, but he took the shrooms 48 hours prior, so he had slept since the shrooms at least for a bit.

        • squiblet
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          21 year ago

          Considering he was apparently on a psychotic break, not sure how reliable his self-reporting is.

    • Addv4
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      151 year ago

      Supposedly, he took the mushies around 48hrs before, so they were out of his system. So it was probably just extreme sleep deprevation. Which begs the question, it that just considered normal on airlines?

      • @remer@lemmy.world
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        131 year ago

        It absolutely is NOT normal. They have very strict fatigue tracking and rules. This guy shouldn’t have been anywhere near a cockpit. I’m not sure if the rules extend to non-flight crew but I’m sure the FAA will be considering that now.

    • @SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo
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      51 year ago

      It should hopefully not have any effect on regulatory perceptions since legal psychiatric use should involve a medication with a certain dose that’s the lowest amount that will help instead of just eating a bunch of mushrooms but we do live in the dumbest timeline. I felt bad for this guy thinking it was a mental breakdown and he needed help but this was a series of really bad decisions.