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The Czech Republic already decriminalized the possession and cultivation of small amounts of cannabis in 2010.
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Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
It’s set in 1982, as Spain gallops towards a bright democratic future thanks to a Pact of Forgetting, decriminalizing human rights violations under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 13 May 2025
That’s up from 25 million in 2019, when Denver became the first U.S. city to decriminalize it.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 13 May 2025
Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, became the first hallucinogenic substance to be decriminalized in the U.S. after Denver voted to legalize possession of it in 2019.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
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Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
It’s set in 1982, as Spain gallops towards a bright democratic future thanks to a Pact of Forgetting, decriminalizing human rights violations under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 13 May 2025
That’s up from 25 million in 2019, when Denver became the first U.S. city to decriminalize it.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 13 May 2025
Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, became the first hallucinogenic substance to be decriminalized in the U.S. after Denver voted to legalize possession of it in 2019.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decriminalize
legalize
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Those products are technically legal at the federal level, though when Maryland legalized recreational cannabis on July 1, 2023, state lawmakers attempted to shut down the unregulated industry by requiring stores that sell such products to be licensed.—
Dan Belson,
Baltimore Sun,
16 June 2025
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Getty Images Steele's bill would allow Pennsylvania's Game Commission to legalize hunting on Sundays of its choosing, while outlining new regulations related to hunting, such as trespassing penalties.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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