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Decriminalization or decriminalisation is the legislative process which removes prosecutions against an action so that the action remains illegal but has no criminal penalties or at most some civil fine. [1] This reform is sometimes applied retroactively but otherwise comes into force from either the enactment of the law or from a specified date.
The decriminalization of sex work is the removal of criminal penalties for sex work (specifically, prostitution). [2] Sex work, the consensual provision of sexual services for money or goods, [ 3 ] is criminalized in most countries. [ 4 ]
Decriminalization advocates have cited research that suggests that the drug is non-addictive and causes a low amount of emergency visits when compared to other illegal drugs. [5] Other research has indicated the potential beneficial use of psilocybin in treating treatment-resistant depression and nicotine dependence. [5]
Decriminalization has only one inevitable outcome “Turns out that when you send a societal message that drug use is fine, you get more of it, along with the social ills that invariably follow.”
Drug decriminalization is in some ways an intermediate between prohibition and legalization, and has been criticized by Peter Lilley as being "the worst of both worlds", in that drug sales would still be illegal, thus perpetuating the problems associated with leaving production and distribution of drugs to the criminal underworld, while also ...
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday, when possessing small amounts of hard drugs will once again become a crime. The Democratic ...
Supporters of decriminalization and decarceration in the United States argue that if cannabis were to be legalized it would reduce the number of non-violent offenders in prison making room for the incarceration of more violent offenders as well as easing the current strain that the large number of cannabis possession cases have on the criminal ...
Sabadosa declined to provide specifics on Cox’s input, or that of the agency he worked for, Black and Pink, on the legislation, but said the decriminalization bill was the work of herself, a ...