| However, authorities can address the decriminalization of children in two other ways. |
| The decriminalization of such offences should, at a stroke, reduce the number of children in prison. |
| There is de facto decriminalization in the Netherlands for the possession of cannabis for personal use. |
| Issues relating alternative sentencing other than prison and decriminalization are within the purview of this department. |
| Perhaps they were counting on the forbearance of their host, who, as a candidate, had advocated the decriminalization of cannabis. |
| With this decision, India became the latest country to join the global trend towards decriminalization. |
