Nevada: the first state that fully legalized acupuncture and Chinese medicine in the Unites States——In memory of Arthur Steinberg,Yee Kung Lok and Jim Joyce who made it happen

<正>1 Introduction In the United States,the largest groups of acupuncture or traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)practitioners settled and still remain in California and New York,as these two states historically have the largest,most concentrated Asian populations.The TCM practitioners originally worked in a legal gray-zone,sometimes even being treated as illegal practitioners by the local governments,since