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What is decriminalization?

What is decriminalization? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of making a previously illegal activity no longer treatable as a criminal offence.
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He does not, so far as we know, support decriminalization of drugs.
However, authorities can address the decriminalization of children in two other ways.
Issues relating alternative sentencing other than prison and decriminalization are within the purview of this department.
With this decision, India became the latest country to join the global trend towards decriminalization.
There is de facto decriminalization in the Netherlands for the possession of cannabis for personal use.
Perhaps they were counting on the forbearance of their host, who, as a candidate, had advocated the decriminalization of cannabis.

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