decriminalize
- to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
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“There are indications that decriminalization can reduce the burden on criminal justice systems,” the report said.
“No system works 100 percent, but we do know that decriminalization is the number one thing we have to do first,” said Kinkaid.
There is some strong evidence to suggest that decriminalization can protect sex workers, and all women, from violent crime.
They only support the decriminalization of the drug, which just became law in the Old Line State.
Collins argues for the decriminalization of drugs, which he calls a “far more effective tool.”
decriminalize
decriminalise
- (tr) to remove (an action) from the legal category of criminal offenceto decriminalize the possession of marijuana
Word Origin and History for decriminalization
decriminalize
1963, "to reform a criminal," back-formation from decriminalization. Meaning "to make legal something that formerly had been illegal" was in use by 1970 (there are isolated instances back to 1867). Related: Decriminalized; decriminalizing.