Cancer Legislation, Medical Freedom Issues

How many of you enjoyed what Dr. Murray was saying? How many of you would like to see naturopathic physicians trained like Dr. Murray to be able to practice in California?

Cancer?

You know, 10 years ago, it was the elite that we did not have license naturopathic doctors in California. Passage of that bill was one of our major achievements. Passage of the bill that had in the business and profession code stated doctors practice conventional medicine. If they did anything nonconventional, like everything he was talking about there, for any type of disease or condition, like instead of giving Ritalin to an attention deficit disorder child, they work on diet and nutrition. They would could and had been disciplined by the medical board. We got that law changed. We've also been able to enhance the ability of midwives to practice for home births. The rate of C sections has become almost standard of practice in California, that the births are C sections and the use of drugs instead of natural childbirth, that that still is an issue. But we've been struggling with that. And the medical board has kind of moved our direction in that process and set up a committee with nature, with midwives working on it. The ability of did the general nature pass, not the not the clinically trained nature path, but the general method that in California was not legal.

And we've got that legal in California, this particular point to take in practice on health. The dietitians tried to pass a law three different times, which would make it that they would be the only people in California that could legally give information on diet and nutrition.

Otherwise, licensed nutrition is naturopaths and others could not give that information. We managed to beat that law three times. And I think we've got it finally resolved that they will not be bringing it up again. So.

The battle to get bills passed in California or any state, but California in particular, the larger the state, the greater the number of lobbyists and influences of the pharmaceutical industry and the California the medical associations. Otherwise, a very small state like Alaska. They were to pass the first medical freedom bill. That's a small state. It was relatively easy to do. But California. That's the real struggle. Generally, a bill in California takes from five to six years to get passed and generally will cause something in the area. Five hundred thousand dollars on up for the lobbyists in the other area. And I can assure you, our citizens, our health doesn't have that kind of money on doing it the way we finally got the