As a friend of London Elise, I have been informed of the nearly impossible task of conforming to the city’s ordinances and procedures regarding massage therapy.

I do understand by your description how this process would in effect isolate and exclude you.

It seems that the same thing was done to the colon cleanse practitioners in Santa Rosa.

There, the practitioners were doing well and were not deemed to be conducting a medical procedure until a particular medical doctor began to complain because, I guess, he saw an opportunity to make money.

I don’t know how many of those clinics were closed, but the previous services were deemed to be effective and popular.

If the intent, in this particular case, is to quash sex trafficking, let that be the focus, but, as Elise told me, she surmised that the sex traffickers (organized crime) or larger corporations would be the only ones able to afford the process outlined by the city.

The process seems to be exclusive and leaves out solo practitioners, which it is my belief that many message therapists are. Licensing should correlate to educational programs that most such therapists have engaged in and not curtail surprise visits by law enforcement. I just don’t think money or impossible hoops should determine whether or not a wholistic practice comes into being and can survive.

Regulation should protect small business not derail it. Our country is dying because it is moving toward a monopoly. We need to move in the opposite direction.

Thank you for describing this.