Open question: Is ‘magic mushroom’ pilot getting off easy?

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

The Alaska Airlines off-duty pilot, Joseph Emerson, who tried to crash a plane mid-flight because he was suffering from disillusion over a taking magic mushrooms a few days prior is back in the news. He was originally charged with 83 counts of attempted murder. A grand jury has reduced that to 83 counts of recklessly endangerment. As a result he may be only serving 6 years in prison.

This raises a difficult question we leave to our readers.

Is this the call for a person who was likely not in control of his own mind? Should he spend 20, 30 years in prison for this incident?

Or is this more soft-on-crime mentality which makes it easier for others to put nearly a 100 people in danger and use the excuse that they were under the influence to escape the consequences?

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