[1] Fernando Belaunzarán Méndez was actively involved in student political and cultural causes during his permanence through the UNAM FFyL, and serve as a college counselor between 1993 and 1995.
He founded in 1994 together with other students, the Caravan Ricardo Pozas[3] which aimed to provide humanitarian aid (food, medicine, tools) to the indigenous communities of Chiapas, which at that time were not only fighting with extreme poverty but with an active armed conflict in the region.
[7] On April 20, 1999, UNAM students closed the university facilities,[8] In this conflict, Belaunzarán, was not found involved actively since the beginning, but as an advisor.
During his tenure in the Mexican Congress House he promoted the legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, both through a bill[14] as well an authorization for the medicinal poppy cultivation [15](Opium).
Grace, a small 8 years- old who opened the door to cannabidiol for the treatment of Lennox-Gastaut, suffered multiple epileptic seizures a day.