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The Ethicist: Drug-Stash Ettiquette?

NPR's Steve Inskeep holds his biweekly chat with Randy Cohen, who writes an ethics column for New York Times Magazine. They discuss the ethical dilemma of listener Paula Cartwright in Cedarburg, Wis., who says she found a plastic bag of white powder resembling cocaine in her son's belongings.

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Randy Cohen
Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.
Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition and Up First.
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