Full of SHIT: Butte County District Attorney Mike RamseyPosted by Mickey Martin on June 24th, 2011
Butte County DA Mike Ramsey is a petty, vindictive, and cowardice person who is abusing his power to terrorize the medical cannabis community. His office filed charges on a medical cannabis dispensing collective this week in a direct backlash to the community filing a petition to block an overly restrictive and illegal ordinance that would have allowed Ramsey’s office to run amok and arrest almost anyone growing cannabis in the county. His sour grapes approach shows that there is a lot of work to do to clarify the medical cannabis laws in CA to protect patients and providers and not allow assholes like Ramsey to interpret State law to fit his ideology. Mike Ramsey is a drug warrior who has no problem wasting innumerable resources on prosecuting and jailing non-violent medical cannabis users because he simply does not believe in cannabis as a medicine. His attempt to intimidate the community by blatantly beginning to file charges on providers that were raided a year ago, shows that he will stoop to new lows in his quest to extinguish marijuana from the Butte landscape.
Mike Ramsey needs to be RECALLED. The cannabis community came together to stop the restrictive ordinance by sharing resources and getting enough signatures to block the ordinance. It would take less signatures to trigger a recall election on Ramsey, and it is hopeful the community will also join forces in making this a reality. It is not an option any longer. This first wave of charges filed on Mountainside Patients Collective is sure to be followed by more charges and no operator in the area is safe from the evil and vindictive prosecution of Ramsey’s office. It is imperative that this man be removed from any position of power and that he not be allowed to carry on his crusade against patients and providers.
Mike Ramsey has already had his ass handed to him by Americans for Safe Access in his attempt to circumvent and manipulate State law in David Williams et. al. v. Butte County. In this ruling, ASA challenged Butte County’s policy of prohibiting private patient collectives that do not require every member to physically cultivate the marijuana. They won, yet Ramsey continues to make statements in the press that dispensaries are illegal because they are “claiming customers were part of a group formed to collectively or cooperatively grow marijuana.” However, Ramsey said, patients could join at any time just by buying marijuana. This attempt to make his case in The Chico Enterprise Record shows he is once again attempting to undermine the will of the voters and interpret the law to fit his personal views, rather than upholding the will of the people. For this, and for the enormous waste of resources, Mike Ramsey should be removed from office. If it were up to me I think a tar and feathering in the Town Square would be more appropriate, but I hate drug warrior assholes a lot more than most….
What is fact is that this affront cannot go unanswered or patients and providers in Butte County will surely be doomed. We cannot afford to let Mike Ramsey use his office as a tool for aggression against the medical cannabis community. There will be direct action taken at every step to combat these attacks and medical cannabis patients will ensure Mike Ramsey is admonished very publicly for his attempt to threaten and manipulate the community with his abuses of power. This battle has just begun and it is time for the Butte community to rise up and let Mr. Ramsey know his days of threats and bullshit are numbered.
It is very sad that he has chosen to file these charges in a direct response to the community exercising their civic duty and blocking the ordinance he championed by petition. It shows he fears the power of the people and is doing everything in his power to shut down safe access in the County. Well here is some news for you, Ramsey….we will not go quietly into the night. We will face you at every junction and make sure people know of your heinous actions and attempts to use your office as a tool to oppress and deny patients access to their medicine.
Mr. Ramsey, you are not a doctor, or a legislator, or a good person for that matter. Please stop wasting time, energy and resources on your obvious witch hunt against the cannabis community. We are powerful and have many voices. We demand that you stop attempting to interject your personal philosophies into the debate and quit trying to twist State law to meet your personal needs. It is obvious that your attack is nothing more than an attempt to gain name recognition and advance your own political career. My suggestion…Call Steve Cooley and ask how he liked his narrow defeat in November at the hands of the medical cannabis community that rallied more than enough votes to ensure his ambitions were shelved and he was not allowed to threaten our community at the State level. Your ass is next. We will make sure that you never hold public office in Butte or any other County, and as we organize your recall effort, just know that this in nobody’s fault but your own. I have no idea how cowardice and vindictive bastards like yourself sleep at night, but you can be sure that karma will be there to greet you when you awaken.
Drop the charges and go back to looking for real criminals to prosecute. Your efforts to intimidate this community will not stand and you will lose this battle…one way or another. Think about it. You are an asshole, yes…..but you can choose to be an employed asshole or you can choose to be one of the few officials recalled from office for his egregious actions and go down in history as the man that medical marijuana ruined….the choice is yours, dick.
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