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  • verb Alternative spelling of decriminalize.

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  • verb make legal

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Examples

  • Skweyiya also called for a policy that would "decriminalise" migration and infuse a human rights perspective of development that enhanced improved service delivery for the poorest of the poor in the region.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Cosatu demanded the government give paid time off for education programmes about AIDS, and "decriminalise" the disease by not discriminating against workers carrying HIV, the virus that causes

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Portuguese counterparts for advice, with the only caveat being that they avoid mentioning the word "decriminalise".

    Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • But the establishment, notably including Mr David Cameron and various joke policemen, make it almost impossible to get this message across by falling for the well funded and brilliantly directed global campaign to 'decriminalise' this poison.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • In the midst of the recently resurgent debate in Britain about whether our drug laws are working – or require a major overhaul – the experience of Portugal has become a crucial piece of evidence in favour of a radical approach that has confounded the expectations of even its conservative critics, so much so that in the last month British officials have asked their Portuguese counterparts for advice, with the only caveat being that they avoid mentioning the word "decriminalise".

    What Britain could learn from Portugal's drugs policy 2010

  • Richard Branson's enthusiastic endorsement of the campaign to decriminalise drugs is welcome, as is the news that he devotes half his time to working for charities 'Nobody should go to prison for taking drugs', 4 June.

    Letters: Drugs, rehabilitation and Richard Branson 2011

  • Should we also decriminalise murder, burglary and rape, all of which persist despite the best efforts of the law?

    Letters: Getting high is a basic human right 2011

  • Should we also decriminalise murder, burglary and rape, all of which persist despite the best efforts of the law?

    Letters: Getting high is a basic human right 2011

  • That hesitation now seems to be fast disappearing after the Delhi High Court, in a momentous judgement in 2009, read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to decriminalise consensual gay sex.

    To Be Gay In Indian Business 2011

  • That hesitation now seems to be fast disappearing after the Delhi High Court, in a momentous judgement in 2009, read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to decriminalise consensual gay sex.

    To Be Gay In Indian Business 2011

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