The phrase "a dissuasion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of persuading someone not to do something.
Example: "The teacher's dissuasion of the students from skipping class was effective."
Alternatives: "a deterrent" or "a discouragement".
And for those arrested in possession of drugs for personal use, that means not a court appearance but an invitation to attend a "dissuasion board" that can request – but not insist upon – attendance at facilities such as the Centro das Taipas for assessment and treatment.
The Netherlands effectively decriminalised cannabis decades ago while in 2001 Portugal changed the law to turn possession of drugs into an "administrative offence", sending those caught with drugs for personal use to a "dissuasion board" rather than face prosecution.
They called for British pilots of the approach taken in Portugal, where possession of drugs was turned into an "administrative offence", sending those caught with drugs for personal use to a "dissuasion board" rather than facing prosecution.
People who receive these citations are ordered to appear at a "dissuasion commission," an administrative panel that operates outside of the criminal justice system.
Under this policy, if someone does come to the attention of the cops and has a small amount of drugs, he or she is taken to a "dissuasion committee".
The report, Drugs: International Comparators, documents in great detail the experience of Portugal, where personal use was decriminalised nearly 11 years ago and those arrested for drugs are given the choice of going before a health "dissuasion commission" or facing a criminal justice process.
It did not help that after the signing in Tehran, Brazil's vice president, José Alencar, restated a position he has taken before: that Brazil should have the right to develop a nuclear weapon as an "instrument of dissuasion".
By return mail, he received a letter of dissuasion & supplication from the company.
Drug users in Portugal may still be stopped by the police, have their stash confiscated and be sent before a finger-wagging "dissuasion commission".
Luc Chatel, of the rightwing Union for a Popular Movement party (UMP) and Nicolas Sarkozy's former education minister, said spanking should be like "nuclear dissuasion" – a weapon that "dissuades and is never used".
Controversial when it was first introduced almost a decade ago, the move has turned possession into an "administrative offence", which sends those caught with drugs for personal use to a so-called dissuasion board rather than having them prosecuted.
