Pubdate: Monday, October 12, 1998 Source: San Francisco Examiner (CA) Contact: (c) 1998 San Francisco Examiner Website: http://www.examiner.com/ Author: Leah Garchik 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.'' (snip) [rest of column follows] - --- Checked-by: Mike Gogulski