While Hillary is busy picking out which pantsuit to wear to a Florida fundraiser on Friday, her brassy host is prepping for her conversion on a much less predictable talking point– the legalization of marijuana.
Trial attorney and outspoken medical-marijuana advocate John Morgan will host Clinton and her supporters in his Florida home this weekend, according to the Daily Beast.
Morgan, who financially invested in a 2014 effort to legalize the drug in Florida’s state constitution, is set to be the prominent investor in its second try on the 2016 ballot. Morgan is also emotionally invested — his brother, who is paralyzed from the neck down, uses it daily to ease pain.
Clinton, however, is not so sold on the legalization of what she has called a “gateway drug.”
But ever the pandering diplomat, Clinton has swayed from outright opposition — her 2008 stance — to a cautious “eh, probably not” in 2011 to a maybe-still-open-for-debate response last July.
Clinton told KPCC radio:
Her boisterous Floridian host is aware of Clinton’s back and forth, but still welcomes her with open arms, saying positively, “I would hope that she’s on my side of that issue, but I do not know that answer, I’m going to find out, though.”
Morgan, a successful trial attorney, has hosted many large fundraisers at his home in Florida for a range of Democratic hopefuls, including President Obama and former president Bill Clinton.
However, the big money donor is perhaps better known for his profanity-riddled one-liners.
For example? Morgan’s comment on the perception of marijuana as being immoral and harmful to society.
“If you want to get immoral, go get you some tequila. Then we’ll talk about immorality,” he said. “Tequila makes marijuana look like an Amish bride.”
The poetic Floridian, in addition to throwing Clinton’s big party, told the Daily Beast that he hopes to help the Democratic candidate “evolve in her thinking” on the hot topic.
How the pot advocate intends to help her “evolve” is left to the imagination.
