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.