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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

Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

For years, they have shown up in front of local lawmakers to demand that they decriminalize street vending.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 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

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

While bricks-and-mortar business owners lamented an uneven playing field, street vendors and their advocates hailed the rules as some of the best they’ve seen since the state decriminalized street vending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 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