Tonya’s Bio
About Tonya Davis:
Tonya Davis, activist and medical cannabis patient
This Ohio Activist and medical cannabis patient has worked tirelessly for almost a decade to educate people about the benefits of marijuana and the destruction caused by the War on Drugs. She has met with nearly every Senator and Representative in Ohio to urge support for the Ohio Medical Compassion Act, previously SB343, and most recently HB478 and currently House Bill 214.
Currently Tonya is Spokesperson for Safe Access Ohio and The Ohio Alternative Treatment Amendment.
Featured in Documentary’s A NORML Life and Chronic Pains
Tonya Davis is the current President of Miami Valley NORML. She is a Leader in the NORML Women’s Alliance and serves on their steering committee on the state and the Mid West . Davis is also the President of Ohio Patient Network and the Medical Marijuana Director with Ohio NORML, and the state Director with the American Alliance For Medical Cannabis, or AAMC.
Tonya has been interviewed for Ohio television news programs, newspapers and featured in Treating Yourself Alternative Medical Journal and High Times as one of their Freedom Fighters of the Month as well as other publications..
Guest appearance’s on National Radio such as Ohio NPR radio, 700 WLW, hemprock radio, Time 4 Hemp, NORML LIVE.
She speaks at events/conferences throughout Ohio and also nationwide. She recently spoke at the largest Seattle Hempfests ever in 2009 ,2010, 2011 and at Oregon’s Hempstalk 2010.
Davis is a recipient of National NORMLs Pauline Sabin Award in 2009, which is their top award for a female in marijuana reform.
She is a former cohost on a Ohio public access television show called Medical Marijuana Common Sense,
She does not have a criminal record .. Is not suffering from mental illness and Is not a drug addict. She just wants to bring common sense to our current cannabis laws.
She will fight for you and your rights!
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I am just a guy…your average dude with a wife and kids(1 now he’s 11 and our Daughter is due in Dec.)Full disclosure I do smoke for medical reasons having had 3 back surgeries in 18 months or so. My last surgery was over a year ago and it looks like I am not losing the cane any time soon. I was working a regular job before and have always worked. I have no higher education and in fact signed myself out of High School when I was 18….not because school was ever hard I just got bored knowing 2/3 of what was being taught was useless information. Like the estimated speed of light is 186,000 Mps. Basically what I am sayin is that I have always felt overqualified for most jobs I have had. I have never been in trouble at all, no arrests even in my younger and “dumber” days. I am not a crook in any way though I may or may not have broken a law or two in my past. The worst thing I do now is get a nickle bag when I can afford it and have my wife worry about me getting busted yet know that it helps me cope and honestly like it when I have it. She does not smoke and has only tried it once. That was before we ever met and we have been together nearly 12 years. The point of me telling you this is that I am looking for a job…..I am 34 and use a cane to walk, I can’t lift or bend much at all. I can’t even be on my feet for real long without it hurting more BUT….I am intelligent and can do pretty much anything that can be trained. I retain knowledge very well and am pretty good with getting out what I want to say….as you can see from still reading this and not realizing halfway through that I was just some dumb bored “pot-head”…..like I tell my Son all the time “Dad is smart Son” and I must say we are raisin a pretty damn good kid so we’re doing something right. Any way if you want to talk more shoot me an e-mail maybe you can tell me what it would take to set up a NORML chapter in or around Newark-Heath area. We have a house out off of rt.40 so thats the closest towns. Hope to hear from you and thank you for taking the time to read this
Sincerely,
Kelley Shaver