'DO-IT-YOURSELF' STANDARD Editor: Is growing marijuana a crime or not? Is not marijuana the usual precursor to hard drugs? Randy Cohen (Everyday Ethics, Dec. 2) seems to think that ethics in this matter have a "do-it-yourself" standard, which has no relation to laws of our country or the degradation of drugs. He picks it as a crime which we have no legal obligation to report, then adds that there is no moral obligation to enlist in the drug war. No wonder President Fox of Mexico has to remind us that we have just as much responsibility in the drug trade (by our purchases) as they do. With wimpy citizens like Randy "Don't Get Involved" Cohen, we can let everybody go to pot without a pang of conscience. Catherine Boone Shealy, Atlanta
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