LEAH GARCHIK'S PERSONALS

In a preface to the anti-drug pamphlet ``How Parents Can Help Children Live
Marijuana Free,'' Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, writes that our ``morally
deprived society . . . has chosen to embrace, rather than attack, this
plague'' of marijuana.

The pamphlet -- written by University of Utah criminologist Gerald Smith,
cited in the Washington Post and harvested for Personals by Carol Mitchell
- -- goes on to list warning signs for parents of children who may be using
marijuana: A teenager who ``avoids the family while at home'' may be a kid
at risk; watch out, too, for ``interest in Ras Tafari religion''; most
insidious of all is ``excessive preoccupation with social causes, race
relations, environmental issues, etc.''

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Checked-by: Mike Gogulski