Valerie Leveroni Corral
Co-Founder WAMM
Founder RahaKudo 

• First patient in California to challenge existing marijuana laws based on necessity defense 1992

• Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, founder & director 1993

• Testimony California State legislative committees of the Senate & the Assembly

• Recipient of Proclamations and Resolutions from SC City and SC County 1996-2007

• Santa Cruz County Women's Commission Woman of the Year 1997

• Outreach and education to public officials and law enforcement

• British Parliament House of Lords, Tony Banks, Multiple Sclerosis & Medical Marijuana

• DPF Conference 1997

• 1997 Women of the Year, Santa Cruz County Women's Commission

• Canadian federal case expert witness, Her Majesty the Queen vs. Terry Parker 1998

• Expert witness in medical marijuana cases regarding Prop. 21

• Netherlands Seminar on Marijuana and the Goddess 2000

• UCSC Alcohol Individuals and Other Drugs in Society, Giovanna Morelli.

• Guest teaching 1999 & 2000 & 2001

• Santa Cruz City Ordinance co-author 2001

• Medical Marijuana Effectiveness Study, peer review, publication 2001

• Differential Effects of Medical Marijuana Based on Strain & Route of Administration:

• A Three-Year Observational Study    

• Testimony Senate Health Committee, Senator Vasconcellos

• Appointed by Attorney General Bill Lockyer to the Statewide Medical Marijuana Task Force  

• SB420 California State Regulations served on 28-member panel of Task Force

• Guest speaker city councils, county supervisors, classrooms, health services agencies, Universities and colleges

• City & County Department of Health 3^rd "Bridging the Gap in San Francisco: Harm   

• Reduction Research, Policy & Practice" conference January 2001

• Ongoing research and educational outreach

• UCSC Sociology Department guest speaker March 2002

• Keynote Speaker University of Southern Maine Statewide Women’s Conference Oct. 2002

• Expert Cultivator since 1974

• September 17^th, 2002   Santa Cruz City Hall Medical Marijuana Give Away

• County of Santa Cruz a Medical Marijuana ID Card Program Co-developer

• San Francisco Proposition S consultant

• University of California at Santa Cruz, Planned Parenthood, Watsonville Rotary Club,

• Santa Cruz Community Television,

• 3^rd National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics, Virginia 2002 & 2004

• Workshops: End of life workshops, Courtship of Death

• Drug Policy Alliance National Conference Keynote Speaker

• National NORML Conference 2004 & 2005, Washington D.C.

• Drug Policy Forum Trust Conference, New Zealand 2004

• Presently I am involved in two lawsuits against the federal government resulting from the

•     arrest of Michael Corral and myself on September 5^th, 2002

• Co-Plaintiff SANTA CRUZ COUNTY V. JOHN ASHCROFT ET. AL.

• Return of Property suit

• UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES; LYLE CRAKER and VALERIE CORRAL,   Petitioners, vs. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; THE HONORABLE KAREN TANDY, Administrator of the DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION,  Respondents.    No. 04-1246

• Numerous articles regarding the medical effectiveness of marijuana

• Hollister Rotary Club

• UCSC Sociology Department, Drugs & Society

• Gilroy Rotary Club

• The honor of sitting with those living into the process of dying since 1975

• Congressional testimony House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland

• Security (1^st individual invited to present testimony before Congress on Medical Marijuana)

• Works with epileptics, including children, regarding the proper application of medical marijuana.