Pubdate: Fri, 23 Dec 2005
Source: Brandon Sun (CN MB)
Copyright: 2005, Brandon Sun
Contact:  http://www.brandonsun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2437
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1974/a05.html
Author: Harry Fisher

POT SMOKERS' IQS PERFECTLY FINE

In the letter Anti-Drug Message Important (Dec. 15), Dr. William G. 
Hobbs wrote: "Smoking one joint a day for 30 days will lower your IQ 
consistently."

If we give Hobbs his head and assume that smoking one joint a day for 
an entire year will lower your IQ by a single point, then what will 
four joints a day for 30 years do? It must mean that my present IQ is 
in low flight somewhere between minus-30 and minus-20.

I suppose I should be glad that I am still capable of putting on my 
pants in the morning, let alone mastering the daunting challenge of 
sending an e-mail. In fact, I must be a medical miracle, the fitting 
counterpoint to Hobbs' medical nonsense.

HARRY FISHER

Woodland Hills, Calif.
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