Let's hear it for ice!

For some years now, Slate.com has been carrying on a campaign to discredit media reports about the dangers of methamphetamines. This War-on-the-War-on-Meth (War for Meth?) has often seemed to me an odd brand of quixoticism.
But their latest salvo, this past week, gets in some very good shots. They skewer the laws passed in an increasing number of states requiring convicted meth dealers to have their names and addresses listed on a Government-run online database.
Slate points out: whose bright idea was it to make it easier for drug addicts to find dealers?
The State protests: But the information on the web sites may well not be accurate, because they don't double-check it.

Let's hear it for the Government.