Pubdate: Thurs, 29 Jul 1999 Source: New Haven Register (CT) Copyright: 1999, New Haven Register Contact: http://www.ctcentral.com/cgi-bin/w3com/start?ctcentral+FrontPage Forum: http://www.ctcentral.com/ Author: Associated Press ONLINE DRUG RECIPES EASY TO GET, PANEL TOLD WASHINGTON -- Instructions for making the illegal drug methamphetamine are easy to get from the Internet, witnesses told a Senate panel considering a ban on online drug recipes. Ron Doerge, Newton County sheriff in southwestern Missouri, on Wednesday showed senators a chemical-stained sheaf of meth-making instructions a teen-ager copied from an Internet site he looked up using a public library's computer. The boy used the directions to make methamphetamine several times before he was caught, Doerge said. "We need to eliminate these recipes from the Internet," Doerge told the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering legislation that would try to ban such instructions. The proposed ban on publishing drug-making instructions is part of a larger anti-methamphetamine bill sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the committee's chairman. - --- MAP posted-by: Don Beck