A bill banning Internet sites that publish or even link to drug-making information looks set to sail through Congress ? much to the dismay of free-speech advocates. If the bill, passed by the United States Senate last year, becomes law, it will soon be illegal to link to sites like http://www.ephedra.demon.nl/stories/chemical.htm?>this - which deal with the extraction of ephedrine from, for instance, cough medicine - with the ?intent to facilitate or promote? their business.Depending on a federal prosecutor’s interpretation of ?intent? that could make posting this article a federal crime in the good ol? US of A. It’s one of the more disturbing effects of the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999. The bill, by Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., is aimed at stopping the spread of ?crank?, the freebase version of speed which has gained such popularity stateside. The move has publishers, civil libertarians, and drug reformers arming for battle over free-speech rights.?There’s just no question there’s a First Amendment issue,? said Richard Boire, a California attorney and director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics. ?You’re essentially getting into mind-policing.?The bill was designed to fight the spread of methamphetamine, and stiffens penalties for meth makers and includes money for busting labs and treating crank addicts. But it also tackles one of the knottier roots of the crank problem: recipies for do-it-yourself methamphetamine posted to the World Wide Web. Such recipes are all over the Internet; some explain how to extract ephedrine from cold medicine, while others describe how to set up a basic lab.