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The Nazis were persecuting the Jewish people..not cannabis consumers!

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When we use the "Nazi" term for those who persecute cannabis consumers, it refreshes those unwanted bad memories upon the Jewish community, and these people feel like they are stereotyped as persecuted people and it could promote more persecution against them.

The Jewish people want to avoid further social persecution and discrimination at all costs.

This is why it's so important to change this "Nazi" term to something else.

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This [Spring 2002] issue of the Journal of Drug Issues (JDI) was first conceived about three years ago in conversations among Bruce Bullington, the editor of the JDI; Daniel Maier-Katkin, Dean of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University (FSU); and Lorenz Bollinger, then Dean of the law faculty at Bremen University [Germany]. ...

We are reminded that the drug discourse and all public discussions in Germany in the past 67 years have had to take account of the Nazi experience. Atrocities committed in the name of the German people (and with their consent and participation) were based on the exclusion of groups defined as inferior, and this included drug users. The Nazis’ exclusion of drug users from the German “volk” led to central registration of users, placement in internment camps, involuntary sterilization, and similar fates. These historical events are present in the background of contemporary drug policy discussion in Germany. It is striking that the 1994 decision of the German Constitutional Court striking down statutes prohibiting possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use cited article I of the “Basic Law” (enacted after the defeat of the Nazis), which guarantees the dignity of the individual human personality.

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The five-fold increase in the U.S. incarceration rate since 1971 when Nixon declared a war on drugs owes a large part to the mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws enacted since the Rockefeller drug laws in New York in 1973.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Rockefeller+drug+laws+1973

Irwin Cotler is now lauding some mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Not all such proposed laws, but some of them. This is how it begins.

Attorney General Irwin Cotler is opening the back door of U.S. extradition to give Marc Emery and Renee Boje a mandatory minimum cannabis sentence of 10 years to life in prison.

The Rockefeller mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws in New York are currently being dismantled. Do Irwin Cotler and his Liberal Party bosses need to repeat the mistakes and failures of U.S. drug laws?




That line goes down all the way back to 1971. For longer timeline charts:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/rates.htm




Majority of prisoners in the USA are in due to the drug war. Out of over 2 million inmates. Drug crimes, drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc..
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/majority.htm

From a 2000 article:


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Image galleries for Marc Emery, Renee Boje, and Nazi-like U.S. prison brutality. Will fascist In-Justice Minister Irwin Cotler bring Canada's low incarceration rate up to the astronomical U.S. level?


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To the Nazis, "Volksgift"
(people's poison) came into the good Aryan community from inferior peoples
in Asia and South America. Stringaris's book HASCHISCHSUCHT (Hashish
Addiction) [1938] abounds with such doctored racist "data".

http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9706/msg00061.html

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The tying of cannabis use to racial superiority was both a German and US affair. Many early eugenists were American. The KKK is American.

What makes the Nazis unique is the scale of murder, torture, and/or harsh treatment that the Nazis used against dissidents, races, religions, gypsies, conquered nationalities, POWs, gays, drug users, physically disabled, mentally disabled, and cultures they disliked.

It is interesting that reefer madness reached the federal level in the USA in 1937. That is when marijuana was outlawed at the federal level.

That was one year before that book tying the use of cannabis to racial groups was published in Germany in 1938.

I bet there were other such Nazi-approved articles and books. I bet cannabis was outlawed in Germany before that. I would like to know all this. I hope some people post more info. I have been adding stuff today to this webpage here:

The Green Triangle.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/triangle.htm



Someone ought to interview the German author Lorenz Bollinger (the other authors were American) involved in that Spring 2002 issue of the Journal of Drug Issues that I quoted from.

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Lorenz Bollinger kindly agreed to organize a group of contemporary German academics, researchers, and public officials to prepare papers for this special edition in which we present a collection of 22 articles dealing with a smorgasbord of contemporary drug issues in Germany. ... The original articles were translated into English in Germany and then submitted to us. We soon discovered that the papers would have to be significantly edited in order to make them more readable by an American audience. In doing so, we worked diligently on each of the papers, attempting to remain true to the original intent ofthe author(s) while significantly reworking the language. ... One article provides a brief glimpse at the Nazi past and its essentially prohibitionist emphasis on drug-free lifestyles;

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Until 1933 narcotics users had been regularly acquitted or sentenced to minor punishment on the basis of diminished culpability. After the Nazi takeover, however, the label increasingly switched to "addicted perpetrator," and the sentences became much harsher. With the introduction of the new criminal statute, it became possible to sentence an offender regardless of the fact that he or she had to be considered mentally insane due to substance dependence. This innovation was unanimously supported in the professional journals.11

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Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reichssicherheitsdienst (safety service) and Reichssicherheitspolizei (safety police) attempted to launch a Gemeinschaftsfremdengesetzes (law against aliens to the people). This proposal was supposed to legally codify the persecution of social fringe groups and minorities. The draft - which never became law - called for preventive detention and forced sterilization for all persons classified as asocial. It would have encompassed an estimated 2% of the total population, including those refusing to work, traitors, prostitutes, those defying race regulations, criminals, and narcotics abusers.

The main criterion for legitimating exclusion is the definition of "otherness." If there are no distinct categories like nationality or color, new definitions must be created. These new definitions are instrumental in the selection of certain human populations and in their subsequent stigmatization.

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12 Law enforcement against narcotics users became more and more inhumane. This was not only manifested in users being classified as "psychopaths" and "dangerous mentally deranged criminals" (Freienstein, 1936/37, p. 214). The label "mentally disturbed person unfit for life" was also attributed to so-called "mentally disturbed criminals." So, in addition to many thousands of mentally handicapped people, substantial numbers of narcotics users and alcoholics were possibly murdered under the NS euthanasia program (Geiger, 1975, p. 50). Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (1925/1926, p. 279).

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If one takes out these deaths that Nazi Germany imposed, then what the Germans did in punishing a whole class of people, drug users, was mild (numberwise) compared to the insane drug war in the USA. I don't know how many of the regular incarcerated drug offenders died in Nazi Germany. The people classified with the "green triangles" as common criminals:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/triangle.htm

*Nazi concentration camp badges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badges



Majority of U.S. prisoners are in due to drug war. Over 2 million inmates. Drug crimes, drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc.. USA has highest incarceration rate. The Drug-War Industrial Complex. The USA has less than 5% of the world's population, but has 25% of the world's prisoners.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/majority.htm

And the Nazi-like racism of the U.S. drug war is even more incredible:

Over 5% of adult black males (of all ages) is in prison or jail!

U.S. imprisonment charts. By race, gender, Hispanic origin, age, drug use, etc.. U.S. state by state, felony disenfranchisement (no voting rights) laws. Links to more charts elsewhere. Institutional racism of both the drug war, and of cannabis/drug reformers.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/charts5.htm



The US drug war is the underlying engine to increase incarceration for many problems. Got a problem? Then just jail someone. The US politician's answer to many problems. Blame some people, scapegoat them, and then jail them.

Reinhard Heydrich would be proud.