The fact that the article avoids saying what medicine, why and in what circumstances (creating the impression that the judge said any drug, to any suspect, anytime for any reason) leads me to think that they are deliberatly trying to mislead.
It sure as heck isn't! I'd take 10,000 mikes of acid any day before I'd put a single pill of Zoloft or Welbutrin in me. At least I'd still know my name and how to work the remote on the TV.
I was wondering when the "Taking drugs is okay" crowd would show up.
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.