credentialing of unlicensed herbalists #2

[Guest guest]

Bob,

 

An afterthought -

much of the wording of the Health Freedom Acts passed in Calif., Minnesota, and

Rhode Island are mostly restatements of the case law (common law) regarding

practicing medicine without a license. Now, instead of having to search through

volumes of legal journals to compile the case law on this subject, as I did 9

years ago, one can effectively read a summary of these guidelines in the Health

Freedom statutes. When a legal issue becomes contentious, as has the right to

practice alternative health care, legislatures will often pass statutes which

are essentially restatements of common law in order to clarify a situation; this

is an example of a " codification " of case law.

 

When I first read the wording of the California Health Freedom Act, I was struck

by how much of it was really law already, and that it really doesn't change

much. The difference is that now, because of the statutes, more of the public is

aware of what their rights are - and ***always have been***.

 

 

---Roger Wicke, PhD, TCM Clinical Herbalist

contact: www.rmhiherbal.org/contact/

Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute, Hot Springs, Montana USA

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