THE REEFER REICH: How Chris Bennett’s Der-Stürmer-Style Screeds Exposes the White-Nationalist Undercurrent in Canada’s Cannabis Culture
When Chris Bennett published his hit pieces in Cannabis Culture, he thought he was writing an exposé about me. In reality, he inadvertently exposed something far more revealing — and far more disturbing: a white-nationalist racial worldview quietly embedded in the cultural DNA of Canadian “counterculture.”
What Bennett produced is not journalism. It is not scholarship. It is not even gossip. It is racial agitprop, structurally indistinguishable from Der Stürmer, merely updated for the age of dispensaries, podcasts, and legal weed. And in doing so, he unintentionally illuminates a problem that Canada’s cannabis subculture has long refused to acknowledge: the presence of a white, settler-nationalist, racially-entitled, conspiratorial undercurrent within the “alternative” scene—an undercurrent that masks itself behind tie-dye and libertarian rhetoric, but thinks and writes like Richard Spencer with a bong.
Bennett’s Article Mirrors Far-Right Propaganda Tropes
The parallels between Bennett’s piece and historical far-right propaganda are not stylistic accidents—they are structural features:
a) The Racialised “Foreign Threat”
Like Der Stürmer’s treatment of Jews, Bennett casts a brown, Middle Eastern scholar as inherently dangerous, unstable, deceitful, conspiratorial, pathological, and threatening.
His portrait relies entirely on:
- racial stereotypes
- exoticising language
- pathologisation
- dehumanisation
- othering
The “Oriental deviant” is one of the oldest racist tropes of Western propaganda—Bennett merely rebrands it in cannabis-culture language.
b) The Mob-Rousing Tabloid Style
Bennett uses the same technique Julius Streicher perfected:
- massive blocks of text
- sensationalist tone
- zero evidence
- recycled gossip
- unverifiable anecdotes
- insinuations in place of facts
- the illusion of authority with the substance of a rant
This is propaganda architecture, not journalism.
The Targeting of a Minority Figure to Solidify an In-Group
Der Stürmer never went after powerful institutions—it went after vulnerable individuals who could be framed as symbolic “threats.” Bennett does exactly that. Why? Because this is how white-nationalist discourse polices identity boundaries:
the white cannabis in-group
vs.
the brown, foreign intellectual threat.
Bennett’s rhetoric reveals a larger cultural problem: that Canadian cannabis counterculture has a white entitlement problem. Canada loves to present cannabis culture as:
- progressive
- tolerant
- inclusive
- anti-establishment
But scratch its surface, and you often find:
- colonial entitlement
- white saviour complexes
- orientalist fetishisation
- racialised gatekeeping
- xenophobic paranoia disguised as “skepticism”
- hostility toward non-white religious, mystical, or esoteric traditions
Bennett is not an aberration. He is an emblem. His articles demonstrates how easily certain strains of Canadian “counterculture” slip into white-nationalist modes of thought when confronted with a non-white intellectual voice that refuses to play the role of the exotic informant.
The Far-Right Nexus of Canadian Cannabis Culture
To outsiders, cannabis culture
looks like peace signs and Bob Marley posters.
But insiders know that parts of it intersect with:
- conspiracist libertarianism
- anti-government militias
- anti-immigrant rhetoric
- white-alternative spiritualism
- “Aryan Shamanism”
- neo-pagan nationalism
- QAnon-style psychedelic mysticism
Bennett’s own social milieu overlaps heavily with:
- neo-traditionalist esotericism
- Evolian reactionism
- “ethnic purity” narratives adapted to psychedelic discourse
- anti-Middle-Eastern sentiment
- far-right syncretic groups presenting themselves as “spiritual”
His articles parrots all the patterns:
- demonisation of a brown intellectual
- framing the Iranian thinker as mentally ill, dangerous, unstable
- reliance on gossip networks that mirror white-supremacist forums
- presenting Western whiteness as the arbiter of truth about Eastern religions
This is not a coincidence. It is a cultural ecosystem.
The Colonial High, or How White Cannabis Culture Appropriates the East While Attacking Eastern Voices
Another classic white-nationalist pattern emerges: Racialised appropriation coexisting with racialised hostility.
Bennett and his cohorts love:
- ayahuasca
- “Sufism-lite”
- Tibetan-flavoured psychedelia
- Indigenous rituals stripped of Indigenous politics
- Middle Eastern mysticism minus Middle Eastern people
But the moment a real non-white scholar asserts agency, authority, or expertise over his own tradition? Suddenly the Oriental becomes:
- insane
- dangerous
- conspiratorial
- unstable
- delusional
This is colonial extraction disguised as spirituality and its runs rampant in much white middle-class psychedelic communities.
This is Not About Disagreement — It Is About Race
Cannabis Culture would never publish a 12,000-word screed about:
- a white esotericist
- a white occultist
- a white psychedelic guru
- a white New Age author
- a white neo-shaman
Even when those figures commit fraud or abuse, the tone is gentle, anthropological, non-hostile. Yet when the target is Middle Eastern? Bennett unleashes racialised vitriol normally reserved for far-right attacks on immigrants, Muslims, or refugees. This double standard is the very definition of systemic racism.
Bennett’s Piece is Evidence — Not Against Me, But Against His Own Milieu
His article is a litmus test:
- of his assumptions,
- of his prejudices,
- of his ideological ecosystem.
It reveals:
- the racial worldview he inhabits
- the colonial hierarchy he assumes
- the white entitlement he takes for granted
- the xenophobic narratives that feel “normal” to him
- the far-right discursive habits embedded in his writing
In attacking me, Bennett performed a public autopsy on his own ideological environment. His piece is not an exposé of my character. It is an exposé of the racial toxicity festering inside his community.
Conclusion:
Bennett’s Der-Stürmer screed shows us the truth about
parts of Canadian cannabis culture. It is time to name the problem clearly: Bennett’s
article is racist because parts of Canadian cannabis culture are racist. Not
all of it.
Not even most of it. But a loud, arrogant, self-appointed white male minority
within that culture is steeped in:
- colonial fantasy
- white-nationalist paranoia
- orientalist pseudo-scholarship
- racialised gatekeeping
- entitlement to narrate and define non-white traditions
Bennett’s article is their manifesto. His words are not just
his own—they are the ideological echo of a subculture that has never reckoned
with its whiteness, its colonial roots, or its far-right infiltration. He
thinks he exposed me. Instead, he exposed all of them.
POSTPARTEM TO THE REEFER REICH
“Never trust a white guy in a Bob Marley shirt.”
It would be funny if it weren’t such a painfully accurate indictment of the hypocrisy on full display.
Unbelievable—yet entirely predictable. Bennett launches a full-blown public tirade, dog whistles vibrating at every frequency, smears my name, fabricates nonsense, and then—like clockwork—runs back to his fandoom to cry victim. It’s the oldest colonial play in the manual: attack the brown man, then claim he is the aggressor the moment he defends himself.
What truly unsettles him is not my tone—it’s that I answered. I refuted every one of his bogus claims. I dismantled his misrepresentations point by point. I refused to play the passive, grateful, “silent oriental” he expected. The fact that I dared to defend myself is what sent him spiraling into this spectacle of gaslighting and reverse narrativization.
“How dare the Iranian fight back!”
“How dare he challenge my white-nationalist distortions!”
“How dare he reveal me as an intellectual lightweight!”
This is the real wound he is nursing.
And let’s be honest: the Western psychedelic/cannabis subculture has shown its true face again and again. Scratch the surface and you find the same colonial machinery humming beneath—the same Zionist infiltration networks, the same white-nationalist pipelines, the same middle-class countercultural cosplay masking garden-variety drug-dealer opportunism. It promises “consciousness expansion” while reproducing the most stale, reactionary racial hierarchies imaginable.
I am finished with this scene and its self-anointed gurus. They deserve—and will increasingly receive—every ounce of scrutiny from governments, watchdogs, and serious investigators that they rightfully deserve. Because behind the mystique and tie-dye is an industry of mediocrity, grift, and covert extremism masquerading as “spiritual liberation.”
The façade is collapsing. And their panic shows it.
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