And the proof for that is? Bear in mind that the SSRI makers aver in the package inserts that they do not know how their drugs work. But in France, they're marketed as thymoleptics, that is "emotional stunters." I personally prefer natura, the orginal vis sanans.
and I think it a requirement of justice that such a person be medicated to normalcy for their trial (or as close to normal as the medicine will get them).
Vide supra.
It's not the same thing at all as pumping a mentaly fit person full of LSD or something.
To write this, of course, is to ignore that LSD was marketed as a therapeutic drug in the treatment of alcoholism before its patent ran out. And they're now investigating whether it helps in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A question for Rudder: Isn't LSD a 5HT2A and 5HT2c antagonist? If so, how does it defer from the "atypical" neuroleptics.
In the pudding. Do you really think that psycotic people are rational enough to stand trial? Do you think that they just take the drug then pretend to be rational afterwards? No. The fact is as I stated, they are not rational and fit for a trial unless the are properly treated.