decriminalize

Finally, in 1952, when Wilde is 97, Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits to inform him that a cross-party alliance in Parliament intends to bring in a bill to decriminalize homosexuality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

In November, Paxton also sued Dallas after its residents overwhelmingly voted to decriminalize possession.

From Slate ● May 28, 2025

In Latin America, Colombia previously had been the only country to decriminalize euthanasia, in which doctors used drugs to kill terminally ill patients.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

Then in 2021, a movement to decriminalize cruising began to take root in National City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

Mexico City was the first Mexican jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion 15 years ago.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

Additionally, the bill effectively decriminalizes street vending without a license.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

Legal jaywalking: California’s “Freedom to Walk” act, which decriminalizes jaywalking, will go into effect on Jan 1.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Pedestrians take note: A new law decriminalizes safe jaywalking in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022

Last week, Brown signed a bill authored by Lara into law that decriminalizes sidewalk vending, a business popular with many immigrants.

From Fox News ● Sep. 28, 2018

Cuba, which decriminalizes abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, is the only country in Latin America where legal abortion is common.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2012

It was only a few weeks before his death in August 1967 that homosexuality was partially decriminalized in England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Elsewhere in Latin America, courts in Colombia and Ecuador have decriminalized euthanasia without passing laws to legalize the practice, while Cuba allows for terminal patients to refuse being kept alive artificially.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

Indian cinema has seen a wave of queer-themed commercial movies since gay sex was decriminalized in a Supreme Court decision in 2018.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

Homosexuality was decriminalized in Belarus in 1994, but the LGBTQ+ community faces heavy stigma and high suicide rates, advocates say.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

The no-vending zones were established by a 2018 ordinance that decriminalized street vending elsewhere in the city and created rules and regulations for vendors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

In New York, two opposing bills—one decriminalizing prostitution, which was supported by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani when he was still an assemblymember, and the other enacting the Nordic model—are still under consideration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Rodriguez stabilized the situation by introducing greater fiscal discipline, halting the printing of money, relaxing exchange controls and decriminalizing the use of the dollar, which has become Venezuela's de facto currency.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

But advocates of decriminalizing jaywalking are skeptical that jaywalking laws keep people safer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Dr. Anna Lembke, a professor at Stanford who raised concerns years ago over the rise in opioid prescriptions, shares those concerns about decriminalizing psychedelics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

Oregon - which pioneered decriminalizing marijuana, boosting recycling, and protecting immigrants - is often viewed as one of America’s most liberal states.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023