Reason magazine editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie turned the tables on Fox News's Bill O'Reilly during an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor Wednesday. (Read the edited partial transcript.) After being cut off by O'Reilly, Gillespie became the interrogator:

GILLESPIE: All right, but you agree that medical marijuana makes sense and is a legitimate choice.

O'REILLY: For Montel Williams and people like that.

GILLESPIE: OK.

Reason's exceptional blog, Hit & Run, frequently tackles drug-policy issues. A visit there is always rewarding.

Also present at the O'Reilly debate was ONDCP's Andrea Grubb Barthwell. Here she shows her usual compassion in opposing the use of medical marijuana:

O'REILLY: Right. There's no question this is a ruse. But there is a legitimate issue here, Doctor. We had Montel Williams on a few weeks back. He has MS. And I believe Montel Williams when he says, "Look, medical marijuana helps me, helps me cope with this disease, cope with my suffering. There's no reason why I should be denied it." And I agree with Montel Williams that if this is the case, if a doctor -- a doctor -- says that he needs it for his MS, he should have it. You don't disagree with that, do you?

BARTHWELL: Well, I do, actually.

Barthwell, by the way, may enter the GOP senate fray in Illinois.