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

From Slate ● May 28, 2025

However, early data from Virginia, one of the first places to decriminalize jaywalking, shows no increase in pedestrian deaths and injuries, according to a report by America Walks, a national pedestrian rights advocacy group.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

“Did you lead the charge to decriminalize public urination in Washington, D.C.?”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

The bill would decriminalize vending without a license, make licenses cheaper and waive past unpaid licensing fees.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 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

A decade later, the Edict of Milan decriminalized Christianity in the empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

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

None of France’s major political parties represented in parliament is questioning the right to abortion, which was decriminalized in 1975.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

A 2018 California law decriminalized street vending throughout the state and restricted local governments from limiting sidewalk sales unless there were “objective health, safety or welfare concerns.”

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

That decision set off a slow state-by-state process of decriminalizing it.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2023