California and Arizona had just passed referenda relaxing the laws against

prescribing marijuana for medical use--primarily, to alleviate nausea resulting from

chemotherapy--a development that Mr. Buckley had long advocated. It is a development

that Mr. Califano deplores: "I think [the voters] were sold a bill of goods. I think they

were bamboozled." He argues persuasively that the referenda were written much more

broadly than proponents portrayed them. WFB argues persuasively against the slippery-

slope argument: "Let that person dying of cancer have one whiff of marijuana and

everybody's going to die of a morphine fix." You pays your money and you takes your

choice--but the two men lay out the choice with crystal clarity.