Is marijuana really the way for Democrats to keep Senate control?

I have often wondered if the path to eternal bliss and personal inner peace would simply mean for me to stop paying attention to the world around me. In particular, the political world. I’ve tried to imagine a day, a month, without Blitzer, Maher, O’Reilly, Williams and anyone appearing on MSNBC. Oh, how much stress I would save myself.
But I can’t. I’m addicted. So I will continue to pay attention, no matter what the latest headline reads or what catastrophe develops.

This leads me to a recent article I came across published by the Washington Examiner. Written by “journalist” Paul Betard, it addressed how Democrats could increase the odds of their keeping control of the U.S. Senate in the upcoming November elections by pushing marijuana onto young people.
OK, I don’t literally mean selling $20 baggies full of bud to college students on unlit street corners, although after years of watching Harry Reid I’m not sure I’d completely rule out the possibility.

The article puts the spotlight on John Hudak of the Brookings Institution, who is described as an “expert,” although it really didn’t describe what his expertise was in. I only later learned that he was a fellow in governance studies. He is also the author of a book titled “Presidential Pork.”
But more to the point, Hudak wrote a report titled “Harry Reid Should Love Marijuana: How Legalization could Help Keep the Senate Blue.”

Hudak points out that “People turn out for elections when they feel passion about a candidate or a race, but ballot initiatives can also generate interest.”
So, when considering that the Democratic Party draws much of its support from younger Americans, why shouldn’t they campaign on an issue that has done so much to dumb down an already indifferent and shallow generation?

I’m reminded of a segment I watched on Fox News channel’s “ O’Reilly Report,” when reporter Jesse Watters visited a gathering of “Stoners” in Denver after Colorado legalized marijuana. When Watters asked a young female what she did when she first woke up that morning, in a giddy reply she slurred, “I smoked a bong!”
“What did you do after that?” Watters then asked.
“I took a nap!”
“And after you took a nap?”

“I smoked another bong,” she answered, laughing almost hysterically.
And to think I was worrying about whose capable hands America’s future would be passed on to.
The first presidential election I voted in was in 1972. Being stoned was considered recreation, not an issue of immense concern. Considering that 18-year-olds had just been granted the right to vote, more immediate concerns were given to the Vietnam War, the Cold War, segregation and equal rights.

Although today’s issues (global terrorism, the immigration crisis and the level of Nixionian deceptions coming from the current administration) was as monumental as those faced by the previous younger generations, there were unfortunately those who see a political silver lining in our cultural demise.
In fact Hudek looks ahead to the future. He writes, “Legalization supporters would be wise to wait until 2016 and capitalize on a duel effect.

A presidential election year will bring out voters more sympathetic to legalization, and legalization will bring out even more young, liberal voters than normal.”
I certainly don’t believe that the majority of our young voters should be judged by a bunch of potheads munching on Skittles and reading nothing but High Times and pretty neon signs.

But Hudek is suggesting that Senate majority leaders take a page from the book of any drug dealer in learning how to manipulate our young people. That’s just wrong.
But hey, look at it this way, if Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, then her husband can finally inhale.

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