Sentence examples for decriminalization process from inspiring English sources

While drug use itself is still not technically legal in Portugal, the decriminalization process has all but removed police involvement from casual use, instead keeping cops' focus on interdiction and high-level suppliers.

In the U.S. the process of decriminalization began 1983 with Wisconsin and in 2003 a Supreme Court decision effectively decriminalized male homosexuality for the nation.

What the press scrum didn't know, or at least didn't acknowledge, is that these two radicals sparked the political process that made marijuana decriminalization in Philly happen.

On Friday, at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit, United States Congressman and noted anti-pot advocate John Fleming of Louisiana decried the nationwide trend toward the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana, in the process spewing out a bunch of discredited myths that could have come straight out of decades-old war on drugs propaganda films.

In the process he makes as convincing a case for the decriminalization and destigmatization of prostitution as anyone I've ever come across in the prostitutes' rights movement.

Lewis, a major backer of efforts to decriminalize marijuana, has helped underwrite campaigns to hold referenda on decriminalization in Arizona and California.

But there are those who favor decriminalization.

Decriminalization of drug possession is the answer.

You've long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana.

"But we don't know the effects of that decriminalization".

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