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Introducing Victoria Zavala for Lancaster City Council
You may not have heard about Victoria Zavala yet but you will. If she is elected on April 13, 2010 she will not only be the first Latina on the council in Lancaster but also the first medical cannabis patient to serve on that council.
Victoria has been tirelessly working on safe access for medical cannabis patients in the Antelope Valley (which is about 2 hours north of LA).She is the director of a non-profit delivery service.
She has been desperately trying to convince the city to allow her to have a storefront location, so that she could help more patients. They have put a moratorium on all storefront locations in her city in the Antelope Valley Zavala is a single mother who struggles with her own auto-immune condition.
I first met Victoria while planning the first Charles C. Lynch protest. Victoria and her crew (Andrew and Andy, etc) jumped right in to the planning process. They donated a lot of poster boards, paints, and paint brushes to help us make protest signs. And they even helped plan the second protest as well.
Zavala and her small delivery collective are making major medical marijuana improvements in the Antelope Valley of Southern California. Zavala has been in the medical industry for over 15 years. And Community involvement is nothing new for Zavala and the small group of patients who help her.
She has been advocating and educating about Medical Cannabis in her surrounding area, her collective has had booths at community events, has given to charities like Grace Resources (homeless shelter), the LGBT domestic abuse shelter, Tarzana Substance Abuse Center, and Mental Health Centers at least once a month.
She dresses professionally to go into medical centers and hospital cafeterias to leave Medical Cannabis publications (West Coast Cannabis, West Coast Leaf, LA JEMM, etc) at these locations. She talks to doctors at the local Dialysis centers, Cancer Centers, Pain management Centers.
She even goes to all city council meetings, to some crime watch meetings, and City Planning meetings. She has met with her City Manager & City Attorney. She has met with the Sheriff and Detectives from various law enforcement agencies in the area.
And she has partnered with smoke shops to do vaporizing demonstrations, to teach patients the benefits of vaporizing which heats the herb releasing the medicinal compounds without burning it. This helps patients learn healthier ways to consume their cannabis and helps them find locations where they can get these products. She even created a poster that explains the benefits of vaporizing medical cannabis to share with patients.
Victoria needs to raise funds for her campaign to get the word out about what shes doing. If you can help, please do. Keep an eye out, Ill be posting more information soon. Please share this and tell others. We need more medical cannabis elected officials to make good laws for patients.
Ive talked about Victoria Zavala in other blog posts:
http://waronme.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-are-most-influential-women-in.html
http://waronme.blogspot.com/2010/02/hempcon-2010-medical-marijuana-medias.html
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Introducing Victoria Zavala for Lancaster City Council
You may not have heard about Victoria Zavala yet but you will. If she is elected on April 13, 2010 she will not only be the first Latina on the council in Lancaster but also the first medical cannabis patient to serve on that council.
Victoria has been tirelessly working on safe access for medical cannabis patients in the Antelope Valley (which is about 2 hours north of LA).She is the director of a non-profit delivery service.
She has been desperately trying to convince the city to allow her to have a storefront location, so that she could help more patients. They have put a moratorium on all storefront locations in her city in the Antelope Valley Zavala is a single mother who struggles with her own auto-immune condition.
I first met Victoria while planning the first Charles C. Lynch protest. Victoria and her crew (Andrew and Andy, etc) jumped right in to the planning process. They donated a lot of poster boards, paints, and paint brushes to help us make protest signs. And they even helped plan the second protest as well.
Zavala and her small delivery collective are making major medical marijuana improvements in the Antelope Valley of Southern California. Zavala has been in the medical industry for over 15 years. And Community involvement is nothing new for Zavala and the small group of patients who help her.
She has been advocating and educating about Medical Cannabis in her surrounding area, her collective has had booths at community events, has given to charities like Grace Resources (homeless shelter), the LGBT domestic abuse shelter, Tarzana Substance Abuse Center, and Mental Health Centers at least once a month.
She dresses professionally to go into medical centers and hospital cafeterias to leave Medical Cannabis publications (West Coast Cannabis, West Coast Leaf, LA JEMM, etc) at these locations. She talks to doctors at the local Dialysis centers, Cancer Centers, Pain management Centers.
She even goes to all city council meetings, to some crime watch meetings, and City Planning meetings. She has met with her City Manager & City Attorney. She has met with the Sheriff and Detectives from various law enforcement agencies in the area.
And she has partnered with smoke shops to do vaporizing demonstrations, to teach patients the benefits of vaporizing which heats the herb releasing the medicinal compounds without burning it. This helps patients learn healthier ways to consume their cannabis and helps them find locations where they can get these products. She even created a poster that explains the benefits of vaporizing medical cannabis to share with patients.
Victoria needs to raise funds for her campaign to get the word out about what shes doing. If you can help, please do. Keep an eye out, Ill be posting more information soon. Please share this and tell others. We need more medical cannabis elected officials to make good laws for patients.
Ive talked about Victoria Zavala in other blog posts:
http://waronme.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-are-most-influential-women-in.html
http://waronme.blogspot.com/2010/02/hempcon-2010-medical-marijuana-medias.html
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