The clinic is run on a voluntary basis and charges Western clients a fee for consultation and medicine, in order to provide a free service for the Nepalis.
Reports in the state-run press say more than 90% of their income comes from charges (poorly regulated and often excessive) for providing services and medicine.
"This proposition is not about medicine, " charges Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates, co-chairman of Citizens for a Drug-Free California, the campaign opposing Prop 215.