"The issue is not precisely whether a government has chosen to decriminalize or not to decriminalize," Brownfield remarked.
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"If they really want to end trafficking… Decriminalize sex work and decriminalize clients," said Kit Rothschild, a retired dominatrix who works for PACE Society.
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Denver has led the nation in changing drug policy Kevin Matthews, the campaign director of Decriminalize Denver, organized the grassroots effort to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms.
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Prior to the Denver and Oregon initiatives to decriminalize psilocybin, Marina, California mayoral candidate Kevin Saunders filed a ballot measure to decriminalize the possession, sale, transportation and cultivation of psychedelic mushrooms.
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Encourage states and municipalities to decriminalize all commercial sex work.
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That's why I say we have to decriminalize being trans.
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Separately, lawmakers are considering a bill that would decriminalize abortion.
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Tulsi Gabbard wants to decriminalize drugs like cocaine and heroin.
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We call for strategies that decriminalize, rather than target, poverty.
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Oregon was the first state to decriminalize marijuana in 1973.
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Democratic voters, however, are leaning to decriminalize sex work outright.
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"We need to decriminalize opiates for personal use," Yang said.
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"Good," said Tamika Spellman, an advocate who has been part of the grassroots movement to decriminalize sex work in DC, when BuzzFeed News contacted her about Decriminalize Sex Work's decision to withdraw the proposal.
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To protect immigrants, some cities have moved to decriminalize minor offenses.
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Organizers with Decriminalize Denver need about 700 more signatures before Jan.
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The cannabis industry must also press for policies to decriminalize marijuana.
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He also pushed to decriminalize abortion and legalize same-sex marriage.
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New Zealand's parliament on Thursday advanced a proposal to decriminalize abortion.
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Ditto for marijuana, which McGovern wanted to decriminalize but not legalize.
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But other countries in Africa have taken steps to decriminalize homosexuality.
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A bill to decriminalize prostitution in DC was introduced in 2017.
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Sununu's signature makes New Hampshire the 22nd state to decriminalize marijuana.
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Working together to decriminalize self-managed abortion will curb these risks.
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"I think we should decriminalize marijuana, period," Biden responded to Booker.
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" Biden responded by saying he thinks "we should decriminalize marijuana, period.
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The push to decriminalize sex work has been met by strident opposition.
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The government has no plans to decriminalize the drug for recreational use.
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"The time has come to decriminalize marijuana," Schumer said in a statement.
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It sounds very noble to want to reduce prison populations and decriminalize.
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A bipartisan effort to decriminalize marijuana in Texas has stalled after Gov.
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He has also led an effort to decriminalize homosexuality around the globe.
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Decriminalize it, and let out those who are jailed because of it.
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She would decriminalize assisted suicide, prostitution and not only marijuana but all drugs.
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Meanwhile, constituents in Arkansas, Florida, and North Dakota voted to decriminalize medical marijuana.
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This year, 15 states have also considered laws that would decriminalize marijuana, e.g.
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Will you decriminalize illegal border crossings and give unauthorized immigrants free health care?
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Beto O'Rourke after a heated exchange on whether the U.S. should decriminalize immigration.
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In May 2016, Amnesty International released a policy to decriminalize consensual sex work.
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We're in Congress NOW calling on Congress to #abolishICE, #EndFamilyDetention, and decriminalize immigrants.
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New Mexico is about to become the 24th state to decriminalize marijuana. Gov.
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He has backed gay marriage, and started a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.
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On Monday, the Virginia House approved a largely similar bill to decriminalize cannabis.
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He would decriminalize unauthorized immigration and streamline the process for applying for citizenship.
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Canada's regulations were designed only to decriminalize marijuana use, not necessarily encourage it.
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Romania scraps decree to decriminalize corruption after largest protests in decades Romania scraps decree to decriminalize corruption after largest protests in decades Romania's prime minister on Sunday abandoned a controversial emergency decree that would have protected corrupt politicians from prosecution.
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Julian Castro, the former HUD Secretary, has said he would decriminalize undocumented border crossing.
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Recently, the Canadian Supreme Court decided unanimously to decriminalize physician participation in assisted suicide.
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That may change with a bill to decriminalize drunken boating that's up for vote.
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"We need to decriminalize opiates for personal use," Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang says.
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It's come up in Argentina, where there's progress being made to decriminalize the law.
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Catholic bishops around the world have had differing responses to laws to decriminalize homosexuality.
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Planning for the campaign to decriminalize homosexuality started before the U.N. job became open.
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It would decriminalize the use of cannabis and expunge all prior cannabis use convictions.
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Most notably, his plan commits to decriminalize all drug possession in his first term.
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If we decriminalize drugs, people can come out of the shadows and get help.
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Chuck Schumer to introduce bill to "decriminalize" marijuana The Senate's highest-ranking Democrat, Sen.
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Ireland repealed its abortion ban, votes are being taken in Argentina to decriminalize abortion.
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A movement to decriminalize sex work is, for the first time, winning broad support.
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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Kenya's High Court began hearing a case that may decriminalize homosexuality.
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The move by Seattle's courts follows similar actions to decriminalize marijuana in other states.
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And it is in this emotional territory where the decision to decriminalize or not rests.
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In March, Chile's chamber of deputies approved a bill to decriminalize abortion in some circumstances.
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A California effort to decriminalize psilocybin failed to qualify for the statewide ballot in 2018.
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Belize's supreme court has ruled to decriminalize gay sex in the tiny Central American nation.
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Kamala Harris announced plans to introduce a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
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Kamala Harris announced they would introduce a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
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If the initiative then passes, Denver could become the first city to decriminalize the hallucinogen.
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Did the state decriminalize possession and distribution of needles for participants of needle exchange programs?
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Also tucked inside it was one other major proposal: a call to decriminalize sex work.
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"This movement to try to decriminalize homosexuality around the world is overdue," Aiken told Hill.
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The plan would also decriminalize homelessness and end laws that discriminate against those without homes.
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He also commits to analyzing international efforts that seek to decriminalize the use of narcotics.
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In 2014, legislation was approved in Maryland to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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You already talked to my colleague Ezra Klein about your proposal to decriminalize border crossings.
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But the market nationwide is expected to continue expanding as more states decriminalize marijuana use.
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New York lawmakers should pass the bills proposed in Albany that would decriminalize sex work.
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The Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, called for the State Legislature to decriminalize marijuana.
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One centers on legalizing psychedelic "shroom" therapy; the other would decriminalize almost all drugs, period.
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"In addition to decriminalizing marijuana, I would decriminalize opiates for personal use," Yang told Hill.
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In neighboring New Zealand, a similar bill to decriminalize abortion is currently going through parliament.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Monday to decriminalize marijuana use in the state.
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New Hampshire was the last holdout before becoming the 22nd state to decriminalize earlier this week.
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Hawaii on Tuesday decriminalized marijuana, making it the 26th state to decriminalize or legalize the drug.
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Around the world: In 2001, Portugal became the first European nation to decriminalize all drug possession.
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Contrary to popular belief, Denver would not be the first North American locale to decriminalize mushrooms.
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The fight for justice and plain sense in HIV must join the fight to decriminalize abortion.
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Previous attempts to decriminalize several graft offences via decree triggered the largest street protests in decades.
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Oakland, California, is poised to become the second American city, after Denver, to decriminalize magic mushrooms.
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Attendees this year are also big on advocating for body positivity and to decriminalize sex work.
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Two months ago, Kenya's High Court began hearing a case that may decriminalize homosexuality in Kenya.
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Kamala Harris introduced a new bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level (The MORE Act).
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Denver received national attention this week after voters there passed Initiative 301 to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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Castro's plan would also decriminalize crossing the border illegally, a reversal of 90 years of precedent.
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TOTAL RECALL Quiz time This city became the first in the US to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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Chuck Schumer has introduced a new bill to decriminalize and regulate marijuana at the federal level.
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If we decriminalize entry, if we give health care to everyone, we'll have multiples of that.
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Joe Biden's home state of Delaware made a similar move, updating state law to decriminalize abortion.
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There are also dual movements in both California and Oregon to decriminalize or legalize them statewide.
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Before stepping down, she is seeking to partly decriminalize abortion, a proposal that Congress is considering.
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These include proposals to expand access to safe drinking water, grow minority businesses and decriminalize marijuana.
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"It is crucial to decriminalize prostituted women, men, and children," the speaker read from Steinem's statement.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bhutan's lower house of parliament voted on Friday to decriminalize gay sex.
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Broadly's findings come soon after the Home Affairs committee recommended the UK immediately decriminalize sex workers.
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Last month, Denver became the first city in the U.S. to decriminalize the use of psilocybin mushrooms.
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Q: What steps would most effectively help to decriminalize India's electoral politics and make it more accountable?
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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest a government push to decriminalize corruption.
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Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic presidential hopeful, to decriminalize marijuana, and names cannabis reform as a top priority.
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Oakland City Council has voted to decriminalize psychedelics that come from plants and fungi, including magic mushrooms.
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Yesterday, Senator Cory Booker introduced a bill that would that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
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The proposal would decriminalize possession, manufacturing or distribution of marijuana in amounts of 25 grams or less.
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Decriminalize Denver, the group behind Tuesday's ballot question, said psilocybin had a wide range of medical benefits.
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A bill proposing to decriminalize domestic violence passed its first reading in the Russian State Duma today.
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We just want to bring consciousness and decriminalize and medicalize it, and eventually it will be legal.
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"I don't have words, I could cry," Nicolle Greenheart, Decriminalize Nature Oakland co-founder, told the Chronicle.
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The New Hampshire Legislature is considering a bill to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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First among them is that the legislation fails to decriminalize or deschedule marijuana at the federal level.
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On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a plan to decriminalize marijuana on the federal level.
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He filed bills to decriminalize possession of low levels of weed and to legalize medical marijuana use.
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Elizabeth Edwards (D) noted that she introduced similar state-wide legislation to decriminalize sex work in 85033.
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When Portugal decided to decriminalize in 2000, many skeptics assumed that the number of users would skyrocket.
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Virginia lawmakers voted to decriminalize marijuana Sunday as the state's 85033 legislative session drew to a close.
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He founded Decriminalize Sex Work in late 2018, along with Bailey, Melissa Sontag Broudo, and Crystal DeBoise.
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Decriminalize Denver, the group behind the ballot question, said psilocybin has a wide range of medical benefits.
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A union formed by the vendors recently called on the authorities to decriminalize their street selling activities.
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Greg Abbott is publicly feuding with city officials in Austin for passing local ordinances to decriminalize homelessness.
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Trump seemed to know nothing about his own administration&aposs plan to decriminalize homosexuality around the world
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He resisted calls to decriminalize the border or embrace a system of solely government-provided health care.
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The country will decide whether to legalize assisted suicide and recreational marijuana, and whether to decriminalize abortion.
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On Tuesday night, the Santa Cruz City Council unanimously voted to decriminalize a wide range of psychedelics.
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Just last week, a representative in Vermont filed a bill to decriminalize a number of psychedelic substances.
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That measure would decriminalize personal possession, use and cultivation of psilocybin statewide for people 18 and older.
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The justice minister resigned yesterday amid mass protests over government efforts to decriminalize some forms of graft.
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The current measure would decriminalize abortion and allow the procedure during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
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" Yang said cocaine is not on his list to decriminalize because "the addiction has very different features.
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" As he said at a press conference on March 8, "At the end of the day, the issue is not precisely whether a government has chosen to decriminalize or not to decriminalize; it is whether the government is still working cooperatively to reduce the harm caused by the product.
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In December 2008, the Bush administration refused to support the U.N. declaration that hoped to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.
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Kevin Matthews, director of the Decriminalize Denver campaign, said psilocybin has helped him deal with depression for years.
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Labor unions have been pushing for these agreements in recent years, as more and more states decriminalize marijuana.
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Harris, one of the candidates who got significant applause at the forum, discussed her proposal to decriminalize marijuana.
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He continues: The earliest major political initiative of Pierre Trudeau in the late '275s was to decriminalize homosexuality.
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Do Democrats care to explain why in the world we would decriminalize illegal crossings, considering all of this?
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In addition, legislators in three states — Hawaii, New Mexico and North Dakota — have moved to decriminalize marijuana possession.
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The new president's allies in Congress have already proposed legislation to decriminalize and regulate the use of marijuana.
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His first policy proposal was a detailed immigration plan, which includes a proposal to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings.
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Grenell was out of step with the State Department on his effort to push countries to decriminalize homosexuality.
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Details: She would decriminalize HIV transmission and lower the cost of PrEP, which reduces the risk of HIV.
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Congress also cannot force a state to "un-decriminalize" something; states' rights are routinely upheld by the Court.
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Candidates at the forum were not asked, for example, if they would push states to decriminalize sex work.
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The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill 24-10 Wednesday that would decriminalize marijuana at a federal level.
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Some cities have moved to decriminalize the drugs, though decriminalization on a large scale has yet to occur.
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Warren's drive to decriminalize border crossings would play into President Trump's false criticism that Democrats want open borders.
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Warren's drive to decriminalize border crossings would play into President Trump's false criticism that Democrats want open borders.
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It was also the first state to decriminalize marijuana use for medical reasons, which happened back in 1996.
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Despite this, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill in February to decriminalize certain acts of domestic violence.
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Last weekend, they canvassed for New York state Senate hopeful Julia Salazar, who wants to decriminalize sex work.
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The first thing I'm going do after I'm sworn in is to decriminalize all consensual sex acts between adults.
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Organizers turned to the same strategy that marijuana activists used to decriminalize pot possession in the city in 2005.
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In Ohio, voters in 5 different localities, including Dayton and Fremont, voted to decriminalize possession, according to Marijuana Moment.
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The bill would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and leverage federal funds to encourage states to legalize pot.
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It calls for the repeal of FOSTA-SESTA and encourages states and municipalities to decriminalize all commercial sex work.
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An attempt to decriminalize several corruption offences last year via emergency decrees triggered massive protests and was ultimately withdrawn.
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DENVER — A ballot initiative that would make Denver the first city to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms looks headed for failure.
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"We want people kept out of prison, families kept together," said Kevin Matthews, the campaign director of Decriminalize Denver.
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When the debate turned to immigration, Biden rejected Julián Castro's call—embraced many other candidates—to decriminalize border crossings.
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Chuck Schumer on Wednesday introduced his own bill to effectively decriminalize marijuana and regulate it at the federal level.
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Last year, the ruling party proposed reforming the criminal code to decriminalize abortion in certain circumstances, Egenaes tells Broadly.
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At that debate, Julián Castro pressed his rivals to take a position on his proposal to decriminalize border crossings.
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Of note: The House Judiciary Committee passed legislation Wednesday that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, CBS reports.
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Grenell, who is openly gay, is coordinating with US embassies in the region to press countries to decriminalize homosexuality.
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Castro said he would decriminalize border crossings by migrants, which he said had led to the separation of families.
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In addition to investing in Medicare for All to provide critical mental health services, she'll decriminalize mental health crises.
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My Administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations to join us in this effort!
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Booker also would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and expunge the records of people convicted of cannabis-related crimes.
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In 1973, the state became the first to decriminalize weed, and in 2014, it became the third to legalize it.
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The government also aims to decriminalize abuse of power that has caused budget damage of less than 200,000 lei ($47,522).
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He only just signed onto legislation that would decriminalize possession of marijuana and would let states decide whether to legalize.
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The Washington, D.C., City Council on Tuesday voted 22019 to 2 to pass a measure to decriminalize Metro fare evasion.
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" Harris believes the move to decriminalize marijuana will prevent the Justice Department from enforcing laws that are "unjust and unfair.
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The plan also would expand access to treatment for opioid addictions and decriminalize mental illness and addiction through reentry programs.
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Endorsing perhaps the most radical idea to come out of the primary field, she wants to decriminalize illegal border crossings.
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A measure to decriminalize marijuana in 1972 was soundly rejected in California, with 66.5 percent of voters opposed to it.
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Yang, in particular, has also proposed taking it one step further, saying he would also decriminalize opiates for personal use.
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One of his signature measures was to decriminalize drug use, in response to a surge in heroin addiction in Portugal.
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Oakland, California, just became the second U.S. city to decriminalize the use of magic mushrooms and other naturally grown psychedelics.
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The government's decision to decriminalize homosexuality and suicide - in compliance with obligations under international treaties - showed "progressive leadership", it said.
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"It is crucial to decriminalize prostituted women, men and children," Ms. Steinem wrote in a statement read at the rally.
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"We won!!!!" the group called Decriminalize Denver that had been pushing the measure, said in a jubilant post on Facebook.
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Decriminalize Sex Work said its now-canned proposal was inspired by Grosso's bill, though it differs on a few points.
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His first novel, "A Crooked Man" (19673) focused on a United States senator who pushes legislation to decriminalize recreational drugs.
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So after Democrats this year took control of Virginia's legislature for the first time in decades, they moved to decriminalize.
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A staggering corruption probe continues to implicate former presidents and powerful businessmen, and the Constitutional Court may soon decriminalize abortion.
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India's move to decriminalize gay sex last year raised hopes among activists like Tan that Singapore would soon follow suit.
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India's move to decriminalize gay sex last year raised hopes among activists like Tan that Singapore would soon follow suit.
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Attempts by the PSD government to decriminalize several corruption offences last year triggered the country's largest street protests in decades.
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One of the most shameful, and often forgotten, acts of the European left was a bizarre attempt to decriminalize pedophilia.
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The state has ballot initiatives, including one to decriminalize marijuana and another to restrict voting in the state to US citizens.
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Lawmakers seeking to overhaul the code have also recently made recommendations to remove immunity for marital rape, and to decriminalize suicide.
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In the District of Columbia, City Council member David Grosso introduced legislation in 2017 to decriminalize all forms of sex work.
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They also don't include pledges to decriminalize sex work, though Warren writes in her plan that she is open to decriminalization.
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Their chosen stand is #FreeTheNipple—a campaign to decriminalize female toplessness and allow women to reclaim their sexuality and their bodies.
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On October 28, 2015, Sanders told his crowd in Fairfax, Virginia, that he wanted to decriminalize marijuana on the federal level.
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Ron Wyden introduced S. 420, a bill to decriminalize marijuana federally and allow for it to be taxed and regulated. Sen.
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The White House claims Trump has long advocated LGBTQ equality, noting that he has backed a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.
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The Canadian government, for instance, recently announced that it will introduce a bill next spring to decriminalize the sale of marijuana.
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We need to decriminalize drug addiction, to acknowledge that it is an illness in our policies and not just our words.
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Back in February, advocates for sex worker rights in New York announced their intention to fully decriminalize prostitution in the state.
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The critics include State Representative William Lamberth, a Republican, who argues that the proposal amounts to Nashville "pretending to decriminalize" marijuana.
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In other areas, he has sought to hold the center, refusing to join the contenders advocating to decriminalize illegal border crossings.
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But in recent years, few laws have been passed to decriminalize behaviors, shorten prison or jail sentences, or restrict police actions.
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In an exchange with Julian Castro, the former housing secretary under Obama, Biden criticized Castro's plan to decriminalize illegal border crossings.
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Currently, the country awaits a landmark ruling that would decriminalize homosexuality in the penal code that hasn't been revised since 1976.
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As legislation lagged, however, officials in Jersey City announced last week that they were acting on their own to decriminalize marijuana.
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The White House says Trump has long advocated LGBTQ equality and noted that he backed a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.
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There have been repeated protests since the Social Democrats took power in early 2017 and tried to decriminalize several corruption offences.
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And even the most optimistic of those pushing for changes do not believe that any state will soon fully decriminalize prostitution.
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Abbott is pushing the Legislature to establish a statewide ban on local measures to decriminalize homelessness when lawmakers reconvene in January.
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Denver voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms in May of last year, while Oakland decriminalized all psychedelic plants and fungi shortly after.
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The Salvadoran Commission of Legislation and Constitutional Issues has the opportunity to vote on two reform proposals that would decriminalize abortion.
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Both red states and blue states have moved to decriminalize marijuana, including states as varied as Delaware, Illinois, Mississippi and Nebraska.
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You write in your plan that you want to decriminalize homelessness and get rid of laws that discriminate against the homeless.
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It would decriminalize all drug possession at the federal level and push treatment over jail or prison for people with addictions.
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Decriminalize heroin Yang said Sunday that he supports decriminalizing heroin and other opiates, but doesn't back doing the same to cocaine.
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On Monday morning, New York lawmakers introduced a legislative package that would make the state the first to decriminalize sex work.
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Six bills have been presented to the Argentine Congress over the past 13 years that would decriminalize abortion, with little success.
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Hua hopes that if Meadow can nurture the business of pot, the taxes generated will convince more states to decriminalize the plant.
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"My Administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations to join us in this effort!" he added.
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That means that, even if marijuana is illegal at the federal level, states may have the power to decriminalize possession, for example.
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Mexico has drafted plans to decriminalize all currently illegal drugs after admitting that the current "war on drugs" is endangering public safety.
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Jessica Ramos, who represents the same area in Queens and is supporting a bill to decriminalize sex work at the state level.
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He also represented High Times magazine from its inception (and was later an owner) and shared its agenda to decriminalize marijuana possession.
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The resolution means that Oakland is the second US city to decriminalize the drug, after Initiative 301 passed in Denver last month.
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When the vote to decriminalize the drug took place in Denver, critics argued that decriminalization risked perpetuating the city's "drug-friendly" reputation.
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A similar ballot initiative to decriminalize psilocybin already failed in California early this year, and advocates aren't sure if they'll try again.
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With Thailand's legalization of medical cannabis in February, some experts predict that other Southeast Asian countries may move to decriminalize the plant.
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About 5,500 were accepted, meaning on May 7, 2019, city voters may decide whether to decriminalize personal possession and use of mushrooms.
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The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Councilperson Noel Gallo introduced the resolution at the behest of the community group Decriminalize Nature Oakland.
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If Oregonians were to approve the initiative, it would decriminalize psilocybins and allow for the licensed manufacturing and administration of the substances.
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A freshman Republican lawmaker in the Iowa state House has proposed a bill to decriminalize psychedelic drugs, including mushrooms, for medicinal purposes.
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Respondents who supported Colorado's legalization of marijuana also flocked to Sanders, who has filed legislation in the Senate to decriminalize the drug.
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Peaceful rallies have repeatedly been held since the Social Democrats took power in early 2017 and tried to decriminalize several graft offences.
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That plan would create new protections for migrants, decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and launch investigations into alleged abuses by the Trump administration.
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It is true that Biden wants to decriminalize cannabis on a federal level, and is in favor of allowing states to legalize.
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Washington (CNN)Hawaii decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana on Tuesday, becoming the 26th state to decriminalize or legalize the drug.
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Oakland City Council will vote Tuesday, June 4, 2019, to decriminalize the possession and use of entheogenic, or psychoactive, plants and fungi.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) have run on platforms that push to legalize, or at least decriminalize, marijuana.
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When they decriminalize — and they will — I will go from here to there without doing anything except sending Forbes a press release.
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Recently, legislation to decriminalize sex work has been introduced in both DC and New York state, and several presidential candidates, including Sens.
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Marijuana in New York: State lawmakers have agreed to further decriminalize possession of the drug and automatically expunge many low-level convictions.
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Warren also reiterates her support to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings, a move that could have huge ramifications for border policing and immigration.
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Two weeks ago, a journalist got wind of a plan to decriminalize some corruption offences like official misconduct and abuse of power.
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This comes after backlash from local DC activists who cited allegations of sexual misconduct against Decriminalize Sex Work's political director, Rob Kampia.
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Last Thursday, a bill to decriminalize abortion and strip the requirement for two-doctor sign-off passed its first reading in parliament.
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"As many states decriminalize marijuana, the public's attitudes and trends of thinking toward drugs will also have a bad effect," he said.
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Mr. Biden would roll back President Trump's immigration policies but would not decriminalize unauthorized border crossings, in contrast with his progressive rivals.
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Peaceful protests have repeatedly been held since the Social Democrats took power in early 2017 and tried to decriminalize several corruption offences.
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The former representative cited their goals to ban private insurance and decriminalize border crossings as unlikely to gain the needed public support.
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And it wouldn't decriminalize or deprioritize the distribution and sales of psilocybin mushrooms — all of that could still be pursued by police.
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Fillon's sincerely held Catholicism added another element to this — in 1982, he voted against a bill that would decriminalize same-sex relations.
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This reality has pushed transgender-rights advocates to campaign to decriminalize sex work and, in the meantime, take safety into their own hands.
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One of the key recommendations of the new report is to decriminalize minor, nonviolent drug offenses, which includes use, possession and petty sale.
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Californians could have an opportunity as soon as next year to make their state the first in the nation to decriminalize psilocybin—a.k.a.
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Since her election to the Senate, Harris has called for legalizing pot and supported a measure to decriminalize it at the federal level.
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On Tuesday, Botswana's top court voted to decriminalize same-sex relationships, and Angola, Mozambique and Seychelles have made similar moves in recent months.
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A similar attempt to decriminalize some abuse of office crimes triggered the country's largest street protests in decades at the start of 2017.
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang put forward his plan to decriminalize opioids, including heroin and fentanyl, during a CNN town hall Sunday night.
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The bill, which will take effect 30 days after becoming law, comes as Democrats are pushing harder to decriminalize marijuana across the nation.
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Instead, he would embrace a position closer to Obama's and decriminalize marijuana use -- while also automatically expunging prior convictions tied to cannabis use.
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Some lawmakers support the ability of states to craft their own marijuana laws but do not back federal policy to decriminalize or legalize.
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The bill is groundbreaking for the United States: If passed, it would make New York the first state to fully decriminalize sex work.
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Lawmakers in New York state voted to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana possession after a previous effort to fully legalize the drug failed.
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It was a nail-biter finish three months ago, when Denver residents narrowly voted to decriminalize psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.
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Other states' weed-related initiatives focus on medical marijuana; 31 states and the District of Columbia have laws that legalize or decriminalize it.
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" But the policy was shot down by Mr. Grewal, who contended that municipal prosecutors lacked the authority to "unilaterally decriminalize marijuana-related offenses.
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Vowing to eliminate private health insurance and to decriminalize illegal immigration, the strongest voices in the debates made few overtures to centrist Democrats.
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The bills would decriminalize simple drug possession entirely and require hospitals and emergency rooms to provide addiction treatment on demand, among other reforms.
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However, the fact that none of the participants repeated the commitment to decriminalize unauthorized entry into the United States is worthy of praise.
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India's Supreme Court issued a sweeping ruling in 2018 to decriminalize homosexuality at a time when the country's president is a religious fundamentalist.
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We've also joined and supported the Sex Workers Advocates Coalition here in D.C. to support legislation that would decriminalize sex work in the district.
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Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang want to decriminalize opioids, but neither has offered a concrete plan for scaling back the broader War on Drugs.
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Just a few miles over in Scotland, lawmakers are currently in consultation over a law to do just the opposite and decriminalize sex work.
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And it doesn't decriminalize or deprioritize enforcement against the distribution and sales of psilocybin mushrooms — all of that could still be pursued by police.
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Independent observers said the coalition's bid to oust Grindeanu reflected anger within the ranks over his failed attempt to decriminalize corruption offences by decree.
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Many groups have galvanized behind Polanco's death, from those who advocate for the closure of Rikers Island to those fighting to decriminalize sex work.
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Warren has said she would decriminalize migration by immediately issuing guidance to federal prosecutors that they not pursue cases related to administrative immigration violations.
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Legislators in Oregon did approve a bill that would defelonize possession of drugs like heroin and cocaine in the state, but not decriminalize it.
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While not under a formal EU monitoring procedure like Poland or Hungary, Romania has raised concern with its attempts to decriminalize some corruption offences.
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But any campaign to decriminalize homosexuality would ostensibly also have to call out Oman, where prison sentences can be handed out for being gay.
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The government is also expected to include a measure in the penal code that would decriminalize abortion, although it would not legalize the practice.
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The country's ruling Social Democrats tried a year ago to decriminalize several corruption offences by emergency decree, triggering the largest street protests in decades.
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Last month, Botswana's top court voted to decriminalize homosexuality, while Bhutan's lower house voted to repeal a similar law that needs upper chamber approval.
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The pimps, brothel owners and traffickers who buy and sell other people's bodies are the force trying to decriminalize the entire global sex industry.
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He introduced a bill last year that would decriminalize cannabis at the federal level and provide incentives to states to completely legalize the drug.
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An advocacy group has collected nearly 9,500 signatures to get a measure on the ballot in May that would decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms in Denver.
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The House Judiciary Committee will hold a markup Wednesday on legislation to decriminalize marijuana federally and reassess marijuana-related convictions, the panel announced Monday.
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Justin Trudeau is making good on his campaign promises as his Liberal government will introduce a law next spring aiming to decriminalize the drug.
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Chuck Schumer to introduce bill to "decriminalize" marijuana Schumer joins several of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and the House, such as Sens.
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She promised to close New York's Rikers Island jail without replacing it, to decriminalize prostitution and to end cash bail for all criminal offenses.
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"A movement to fully decriminalize the sex trade so that we normalize male entitlement to sex is not a model of equality," she said.
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She wants to decriminalize sex work, end the prosecution of drug use and end the use of cash bail, even in cases involving violence.
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State legislators were considering a backup plan to decriminalize the drug after a legalization effort collapsed amid disagreement about how to regulate the industry.
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Canada, and other states looking to decriminalize or legalize the drug, will likely have to drop out of the treaties, or have them amended.
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But as the state Parliament again considers whether to decriminalize abortion, advocates say this time may be different: Women will be leading the debate.
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"We would like to work with everyone who wants to decriminalize sex work, and we're willing to do that on their terms," Bailey added.
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In a series of debates and public forums, the opponents argued over — and frequently agreed about — ways to decriminalize poverty and decrease mass incarceration.
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Some saw the Illinois law as a positive step in a state-by-state fight to decriminalize and legalize the use of the drug.
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Bloomberg, for instance, says that we should decriminalize possession of small amounts, but that there's not enough research to make it completely legal everywhere.
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That's why we need to decriminalize addiction, offer universally available recovery and mental health support, and deal with the root causes of these issues.
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Scattered movements to decriminalize magic mushrooms and other psychedelic substances have proven successful in recent years as public perception of these drugs has shifted.
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He has said he wants to decriminalize possession of marijuana and expunge the records of anyone who has served jail time for its use.
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The director's explanation that he had worked all his life to "decriminalize negligence" and thereby would not recommend prosecution was nothing short of ridiculous.
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Next year, the country will hold public referendums on legalizing assisted suicide and recreational marijuana, and lawmakers are considering a bill to decriminalize abortion.
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BERLIN — The American ambassador to Germany plans to lead what his embassy said Wednesday was a new and "specific push" to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.
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PM Sorin Grindeanu's government has withdrawn an executive order to decriminalize corruption offenses, though some reports suggest it may still free some jailed offenders.
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Just this week, a group of citizens in Denver gathered enough signatures to approve a ballot measure in the spring that would decriminalize magic mushrooms.
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"The role that cannabis played in the AIDS crisis, when the process to decriminalize was driven by the real need for that medicine," says Anderson.
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Castro's immigration policy goes further than most, proposing to decriminalize border crossings so that migrants cannot be criminally prosecuted for entering the US without documents.
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Local officials in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday will hear presentations on a proposed ballot measure that would decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms.
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Angola joins two other Portuguese-speaking African countries — São Tomé and Príncipe in 2012 and Cape Verde in 2004, respectively — to decriminalize same-sex conduct.
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Tony Evers said Monday that his budget will include proposals to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use and legalize medical marijuana.
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Kenyan rights activists are fighting to decriminalize gay sex, a step taken in India earlier this month, raising hopes among gay rights proponents in Africa.
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Since the story ran on Tuesday, other media outlets have picked up the word "decriminalize" and have been using it in their headlines, as well.
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What will you do to decriminalize marijuana so people -- so I and people like me can get the pain and spasm relief that we need?
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On Friday, on the unofficial marijuana holiday known as 4.20, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
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Lawmakers had originally intended to decriminalize possession of under one ounce entirely, but watered the measure down after Abbott indicated that he would veto it.
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ROME — Italian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to stiffen a legislative decree that Italian olive oil producers and other critics charged would decriminalize olive oil counterfeiting.
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Republican Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment is also prepping his own, far more restrictive bill, which would decriminalize marijuana possession for first time offenders only.
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In the past decade, several countries have moved to decriminalize or even fully legalize smoking and growing weed, yet the UK government refuses to budge.
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Marijuana arrests are dropping, and there is a countrywide push to decriminalize cannabis so that our overburdened prison system isn't full of minor drug offenses.
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By striking marijuana from the act, Schumer's office said in a news release Wednesday, the bill would effectively decriminalize the drug at the federal level.
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The country's ruling Social Democrats tried a year ago to decriminalize several corruption offences by emergency decree, leading to its largest street protests in decades.
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Earlier this year, Democrats in the New York state legislature also introduced bills, backed by DecrimNY, to decriminalize prostitution and repeal the state loitering law.
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Mr. O'Rourke noted that he had introduced legislation in Congress to decriminalize "those seeking asylum" and said that he had unveiled a comprehensive immigration overhaul.
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Decriminalize Sex Work, Researchers Say Among those cast out by the OIC are groups from Jamaica, Ukraine, Peru, and Thailand that work with LGBT communities.
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Last year, Romania saw its largest protests in decades after the government moved to decriminalize some corruption offenses, galvanizing the masses to denounce the move.
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On immigration, the question raised during the last debates by Julián Castro over whether to decriminalize the border was once again a point of contention.
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It was only this past spring that Denver became the first U.S. city to decriminalize the possession of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.
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For instance, in Washington, DC, the Sex Worker Advocates Coalition has been a critical backer of legislation in the DC Council to decriminalize sex work.
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Recent pressure to decriminalize the practice, however, had seen pushback from conservative and religious groups, some of which have links to US anti-abortion campaigns.
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Although the push to decriminalize seems like a long shot, it has become a hot topic for the progressive movement in the 2020 Presidential primaries.
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Warren and Sanders have both promised to offer free Medicare for undocumented immigrants — something that even Canada does not provide — and to decriminalize border crossings.
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In contrast to the more liberal candidates in the race, however, Mr. Biden would not decriminalize unauthorized border crossings or restructure Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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O'Rourke's immigration plan calls for a "comprehensive re-write" of immigration laws, and he noted he has introduced legislation in Congress to decriminalize those seeking asylum.
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More than half of all states have taken some action to legalize or decriminalize marijuana, but using the drug is still a crime under federal law.
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Leight has worked on previous campaigns to decriminalize prostitution and has worked for years to help sex workers find the resources they need to stay safe.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Governments around the world should decriminalize minor drug offences because the standard strategy of prohibition is harming public health, leading medics said on Thursday.
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In 1973, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize cannabis possession and in 2015 they joined the list of states to legalize recreational use of cannabis.
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The main group pushing for the legalization of psychedelic plants in the area, Decriminalize Nature Oakland, emphasizes that these drugs can be used for therapeutic purposes.
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Attempts by the ruling coalition to decriminalize several corruption offenses via emergency decree at the start of last year triggered Romania's largest street protests in decades.
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Sanders said he would seek to temporarily halt deportations, decriminalize border crossings and "break up" the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agencies.
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Any representative or senator in Congress can propose legislation that would decriminalize illegal entry and place this matter into the public sphere for an open dialogue.
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A similar effort to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms is underway in Oregon, where advocates are trying to get the issue on the ballot for the 2020 election.
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In New York City, the Police Department has successfully opposed efforts to decriminalize certain petty offenses or put legal limits on a variety of police behaviors.
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Warren, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, joined other Democrats in calling for the change to decriminalize border crossing, saying it should remain only a civil offense.
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"When you claim to decriminalize the sex worker but are still criminalizing everything else in their lives, you are still making their lives dangerous," Luo said.
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We should also decriminalize the small-scale possession of drugs for personal use, to end the flow of nonviolent drug addicts into the criminal justice system.
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Decriminalize Sex Work, the organization that had planned to pursue the ballot initiative, is now scrapping the project, according to a statement provided to BuzzFeed News.
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The US could decriminalize — remove jail time and other criminal penalties for personal possession but not sales — and emphasize prevention and treatment, as Portugal has done.
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In her push to "decriminalize mental health crises," Warren points to "Medicare for All" and its promise of "continuous access" to care for the mentally ill.
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Last week, a U.S. congressional committee passed legislation to decriminalize cannabis, taking it a step closer to being approved by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
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So, too, are measures that decriminalize drug users, support alternative sentencing for low-level nonviolent offenders and provide a range of treatment options for drug abusers.
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Billionaire climate activist Steyer says as president he would decriminalize border crossings, processing those who enter the country illegally under civil law rather than criminal statutes.
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The Marijuana Policy Project, a group which seeks to decriminalize marijuana, said the law is a great step forward and provides patients with more treatment options.
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A group of marijuana advocates is planning a smoke-out in front of the White House on Saturday to urge President Obama to decriminalize the drug.
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Utah's state Senate on Tuesday unanimously voted to decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults and treat it instead as a simple infraction akin to a parking violation.
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Denver is now voting on whether it should become the first US city to effectively decriminalize mushrooms containing the psychedelic psilocybin — also known as magic mushrooms.
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Kamala Harris introduced a bill with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Tuesday to decriminalize marijuana at a federal level and expunge low-level marijuana possession convictions.
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In a statement last week, campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany highlighted the few candidates who said they wanted to scrap the private insurance industry and decriminalize border crossings.
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Politician Shashi Tharoor, who had been at the forefront of a now rejected bill that sought to decriminalize gay sex, tweeted his support of the ad's messaging.
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A major factor in the push to decriminalize marijuana is the nation's large incarceration rate, a direct result of the costly War on Drugs started by Nixon.
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Trudeau has refused to decriminalize the substance in the interim, saying that only government-regulated legalization will keep it out of the hands of children and criminals.
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"The time has come to decriminalize marijuana," the New York Democrat said in a statement Friday announcing his plans to introduce a new bill in the Senate.
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Other states' weed-related initiatives focused on medical marijuana; prior to the election, 10.773 states and the District of Columbia had laws that legalize or decriminalize it.
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The legislation would amend the Controlled Substance Act to eliminate marijuana's status as a Schedule 85033 drug — a move that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
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Some people might be surprised to learn that New York, one of the first states to decriminalize abortion, does not offer the same protections afforded by Roe.
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The ruling comes as Kenyan rights activists fight to decriminalize gay sex, something that happened in India this month, raising hopes among gay right proponents in Africa.
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In May, Taiwan began allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry, a first for Asia, and in the past year, India's Supreme Court ruled to decriminalize homosexuality.
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Debate moderators had just questioned former HUD Secretary Julián Castro about his plan to decriminalize immigration, which would repeal Section 1325 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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But he recently told the Washington Blade that he would not support Decriminalize Sex Work's proposal for a ballot initiative without buy-in from the local coalition.
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Now instead of also seeking to decriminalize psilocybin, as Denver and Oakland have already done, they want to legalize the drug, setting up a regulated, "therapeutic" framework.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has refused to decriminalize the substance, saying that only government-regulated legalization will keep it out of the hands of children and criminals.
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In addition, Warren would decriminalize illegal border crossing — the "criminal provision is totally unnecessary for border security" — and her Medicare proposal would include coverage of undocumented immigrants.
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The movement comes amid campaigns to decriminalize abortion across Latin America, which is majority Catholic and has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.
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States and the federal government should decriminalize the use and possession of drugs for personal use and focus instead on prevention and reducing harm, the report said.
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A new bill to decriminalize sex work was recently introduced by D.C. Council members David Grosso (I-At Large) and Robert C. White Jr. (D-At Large).
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MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers on Wednesday moved to decriminalize some forms of domestic battery for first-time offenders who do not do serious physical harm to their victims.
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I support efforts to decriminalize prostitution, but I do not support any idea, bill, or proposal that would let pimps, johns, and the exploiters off the hook.
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Earlier last week, the House of Representatives put their seal of approval on a bill that would decriminalize the possession of up to a half-ounce of marijuana.
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In January, Decriminalize Denver announced that it collected nearly 9,500 signatures, and turned in paperwork with the Denver Elections Division to get the initiative placed on the ballot.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to decriminalize personal marijuana use, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said on Thursday, adopting an approach similar to some U.S. states and European countries.
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Castro's bold idea on immigration — to decriminalize illegal entry — was taken up by other candidates onstage and then was endorsed by the vast majority of candidates on Thursday.
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Rapper T.I. also expressed his support for the candidate on The View on Friday, and rapper Kid Cudi has expressed support for Sanders's plan to federally decriminalize marijuana.
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She promised to end cash bail; decriminalize drugs, sex work, subway turnstile jumping, and other crimes of poverty; and set up an internal unit to review wrongful convictions.
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"Efforts to decriminalize marijuana should take place in conjunction with efforts to prevent marijuana use and promote early treatment of adolescents with marijuana use problems," the Academy added.
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Harris is a co-sponsor of Booker's Marijuana Justice Act of 2019, which also seeks to decriminalize pot and reinvest in communities affected by the war on drugs.
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He spent the rest of the day drafting a bill that would decriminalize taking a gun into a prohibited area, whether or not the person had a permit.
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New York lawmakers on Monday introduced a state-wide bill to decriminalize sex work that advocates are calling the first proposed legislation of its kind in the country.
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Prevention is an obvious part of drug policy, but many experts argue it's more important to decriminalize drugs, as well as advocate for safer use and harm reduction.
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"When you make clients afraid, it becomes harder to screen out predators," Kaytlin Bailey, communications director for advocacy group Decriminalize Sex Work told me in a phone call.
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The whole thing exploded into public view in mid-February after the local coalition issued a statement accusing Decriminalize Sex Work of breaking a promise to step back.
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He's clearly a part of the team, not just for show, as he's taken an aggressive lead role in the administration's battle to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
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Trump said in a tweet marking LGBT+ Pride Month in June that his administration had launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invited other nations to join.
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Strategies to decriminalize drugs, ensure proportional sentencing and provide rehabilitation for offenders are vastly more cost-effective than putting nonviolent offenders in jail and throwing away the key.
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New Zealand Is Tackling Hot-Button Liberal Issues in One Swoop: The country will decide whether to legalize assisted suicide and recreational marijuana, and whether to decriminalize abortion.
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A day earlier Botswana's top court voted to decriminalize homosexuality and Bhutan's lower house six days ago voted to repeal a similar law that needs upper chamber approval.
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Some people might be surprised to learn that New York, one of the first states to decriminalize abortion, did not offer the same protections afforded by Roe v.
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Belize is the third country to decriminalize same-sex sexual activity this year, along with the islands of Nauru and Seychelles, according to the US-based Human Rights Campaign.
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Kamala Harris are introducing legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and repair "the damage done by the war on drugs" as cannabis reform gains steam in Congress.
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A push this year by Grindeanu's government to decriminalize several corruption offences triggered the biggest street protests in Romania since the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's communist rule in 1989.
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The governor's position on the issue evolved since 2012, when he proposed the state move to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana that are in public view.
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In declining to decriminalize same-sex relations, the Kenya High Court said there was not enough evidence of discrimination against the LGBTQI community and therefore it upheld the ban.
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Ideological split on decriminalizing the border Mirroring the debate on health care, progressives and more moderate candidates split on the question of whether to decriminalize crossing the border illegally.
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Separately, the Trump administration is launching an effort to decriminalize homosexuality around the world as part of a plan to pressure Iran over its human rights record (NBC News).
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The new laws aim to decriminalize "normal sexual development and experimentation among teenagers," the Government said, as well as protecting consenting children from being charged with possessing child pornography.
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Even so, weed is now legal for recreational use in ten states and in Washington, D.C. In April, Chuck Schumer introduced legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
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"I would say that the people that are advocating to decriminalize the full sex trade have not meaningfully consulted with sex trafficking organizations or sex trafficking survivors," he said.
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The activists were in Washington, D.C., in advance of a D.C. Council hearing this week on legislation that would decriminalize all aspects of the sex trade other than trafficking.
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Moving marijuana to a lower category "doesn't decriminalize it," said David Holland, a litigation attorney who serves as legal director for marijuana legalization advocacy group NORML's New York chapter.
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Other places are considering similar measures Chicago is among other cities considering a resolution to decriminalize certain psychedelics, and efforts to enact similar measures are underway in some states.
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He also has no plans to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings, and in May 2019, a Greenpeace Evaluation found he had the second-worst climate policies of all the candidates.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A former sex worker turned women's rights activist who successfully campaigned to decriminalize prostitution in New Zealand was honored by Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Monday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Legislators in Australia's most populous state voted on Thursday to decriminalize abortion after a fractious debate that threatened to divide the conservative government of New South Wales.
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The bill would wipe an anachronistic law from the books, decriminalize abortion in the state and ensure that women in New York have the full protections guaranteed under Roe.
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Tim Kaine, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, has said he would not vote to decriminalize marijuana, but he has also said he would respect states' rights on legalization measures.
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Trump issued a statement of solidarity on June 1 to begin Pride Month, saying his administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality, while rolling back protections at home.
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LGBT rights advocates told BuzzFeed News in February that that they hoped India's Supreme Court decision last September to decriminalize gay sex would bring about a similar ruling in Kenya.
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And while Schumer is considering his own bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, it's not clear what he plans to propose, or if it will have bipartisan support.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Isle of Man has become the first of the British Isles to decriminalize abortion in a dramatic reform that received almost unanimous support in parliament.
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Denver city voters may also get to decide whether to decriminalize personal possession and use of mushrooms—a voter initiative just gathered enough signatures to appear on the May ballot.
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I think if it does happen, it will be more of a general trend to decriminalize drug use, and treat it more like a medical issue than a criminal one.
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The Social Democrats also filed various new changes to the criminal code that would decriminalize several graft offences, their second attempt in a year to weaken a crackdown on corruption.
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The Oakland City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to decriminalize magic mushrooms and other psychoactive fungi and plants, ordering law enforcement to stop the prosecution of possession of natural psychedelics.
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A push by Grindeanu's government to decriminalize some corruption offences triggered massive street protests in February, the biggest in Romania since the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's communist rule in 1989.
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If signed into law, the proposals would decriminalize possession or manufacturing up to 25 grams of marijuana and would prevent local ordinances from creating their own standards on the drug.
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Facing Beto O'Rourke, the only other Democrat with a substantial (or, at least, arguably substantial) immigration policy, Castro quickly contrasted their proposals, emphasizing O'Rourke's failure to decriminalize undocumented border crossings.
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However, the new ordinance doesn't exactly decriminalize weed for all Nashville residents—the measure only gives cops the option to assign lesser punishments to marijuana possession; it doesn't mandate them.
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Adorn your lapel with one of Gilbert & George's buttons, with slogans like "God Save the Queen" and "Decriminalize Sex," which are part of a series of works called THE BANNERS.
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So, to find out what a world would look like without prostitution, or what striking could do to create a drastically changed sex industry, we'd have to decriminalize it first.
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"Because psilocybin has such tremendous medical potential, there's no reason individuals should be criminalized for using something that grows naturally," said Kevin Matthews, the director of the "Decriminalize Denver" campaign.
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"A man beating his wife is less offensive than when a man is humiliated," Yelena Mizulina, the lawmaker who led the effort to decriminalize domestic abuse, told reporters in 21.
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"We are demanding Rob Kampia step down from Decriminalize Sex Work, and cease all involvement in any organizing spaces that are survivor-centered and led," said the March 2019 statement.
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Warren could effectively decriminalize border crossings, not by changing the law but through instructions from the Justice Department telling federal prosecutors not to prosecute those crimes, Axios' Stef Kight reports.
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We need to build on that success and continue working to lower barriers to substance use treatment, decriminalize addiction, offer harm reduction, and ensure parity in addiction-related health care.
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There is an argument, and one that I would support for some sort of path to legalization, to help people medically and to not just decriminalize to make it legal.
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The pressure in the Democratic Party to decriminalize border crossing isn't going to make it easier to win Senate seats in Texas or Arizona; the effort to enshrine Roe v.
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And let's face it, it is a huge victory -- especially after last month's let-down in Kenya, where the courts failed to decriminalize their own colonial-era anti-gay sex laws.
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The new proposed ballot measure would decriminalize marijuana offenses, allow licensed businesses to sell marijuana and forbid local jurisdictions from passing laws designed to prohibit the operation of marijuana-related businesses.
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"Most people think that when you say 'decriminalize sex work,' prostitution will be legal and human trafficking will be free," Silvia Escobar, a sex worker in Ramos's district, told BuzzFeed News.
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Related: Top US International Drug Official Signals Green Light for Countries to Decriminalize The groups that signed the protest letter feel similarly marginalized, despite attempts to engage with diplomats in Vienna.
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And during his campaign, Carper took more progressive positions, signing onto Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's bill to federally decriminalize marijuana and announcing his support to index a $15 minimum wage.
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However, if we want a better life for people with addiction and with pain, we should decriminalize drug use—and criminalize the marketing of potentially addictive drugs by the pharmaceutical industry.
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Like most of his Democratic rivals, O'Rourke says as president he would decriminalize marijuana, end the system of cash bail and ban the use of private and for-profit prison systems.
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Lavasani is also a spokeswoman for advocacy group Decriminalize Nature DC. She told the Post that she began micro-dosing on the hallucinogens in 2018 when she fell into deep depression.
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Immigration was the most-discussed topic at the first debate, which was spread out over two nights in June, when Julián Castro's proposal to decriminalize border crossings started a spirited debate.
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One of his most famous stances is his push to decriminalize marijuana and end the "war on drugs," which he blames for tension and violence between Black Americans and the police.
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And Castro, who has championed a proposal to decriminalize migration, is expected to get grilled on that issue after calling on the Democratic field to join him during the last debate.
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Not only would this make Quebec producers more competitive on a world scale, he argues, but it would "decriminalize" maple syrup production and "restore harmony" between the federation and its producers.
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In April, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told VICE News he would introduce a bill to "decriminalize" marijuana, a testament to the slow-but-steady mainstreaming of the drug in America.
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He also said he would decriminalize unauthorized border crossings, making them a civil offense, an idea pushed by Julián Castro, the former housing secretary, in the first Democratic debate in June.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Thursday called on South Korea to decriminalize same-sex relationships for men in the military, warning current laws fuel violence, discrimination and stigmatization against gay soldiers.
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Voters in Denver, a city at the forefront of the widening national debate over legalizing marijuana, have become the first in the nation to effectively decriminalize another recreational drug: hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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Instead of pursuing the ballot initiative, Decriminalize Sex Work said it will now offer $100,000 as a grant to qualifying organizations in DC that want to pursue their own decriminalization efforts.
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The first could come in 2171 — on the 22018th anniversary of the BBC's founding — when the government could decriminalize failure to pay the license fee, turning it into a civil offense.
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Results of the two polls come as Member of Parliament Diana Johnson launches a private members' bill in Westminster on Wednesday to decriminalize consensual abortion in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Yang believes the U.S. should look to other countries like Portugal to solve the crisis, pointing to the nation's decision to decriminalize the possession and use of small amounts of opioids.
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Related: Top US International Drug Official Signals Green Light for Countries to Decriminalize "There's so many things that we could be doing that would be more helpful [than imprisonment]," Brady said.
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Gay rights: The U.S. ambassador to Germany, the most prominent openly gay diplomat in the Trump administration, said he planned to lead a new effort to decriminalize homosexuality around the world.
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But in Denver, voters will make the final choice on their own ballot initiative by the end of May 7 — and could make their city the first to decriminalize magic mushrooms.
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"To decriminalize abortion, this is very difficult at least during this term ... at least during this government, because they are against abortion at all costs," Ardon told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The bride, 33, works in New York as the director of communications for Decriminalize Sex Work, a national advocacy organization that seeks to end the prohibition of prostitution in the United States.
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Decriminalize Denver director Kevin Matthews told CNN that he credited psilocybin with "really saving my life" after he developed major depression and received a medical discharge from the United States Military Academy.
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A headline from the Washington Post is making waves this week, one that claims that a new Oregon bill would decriminalize possession of small amounts of heroin and cocaine if it passes.
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In New York, where efforts to decriminalize sex work have made inroads with state politicians, advocacy organizations have good reason to resist overboard definitions that lump all sex work in with trafficking.
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"El Salvador's lawmakers have blood on their hands after declining to even discuss the reform to decriminalize abortion," said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, in a statement on Friday.
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On Wednesday, in fact, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, a longtime drug warrior, introduced legislation to decriminalize marijuana on a federal level by removing it from the government's list of controlled substances.
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Last month, Denver became the first American city to decriminalize psychedelic plants and fungi for residents 21 and older with the same goal: to refocus law enforcement resources toward more serious crimes.
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The decision reverberated through a country that is currently having a historic high-stakes battle over whether Kenya will become the second African nation after South Africa to decriminalize same-sex intimacy.
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There were other limits to the remaking, too: In the final days of the session, disappointed activists asked why bills to decriminalize loitering or limit immigration enforcement at courthouses had not moved.
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In 2013, after voters in Colorado and Washington State voted to decriminalize marijuana for recreational use, the Justice Department deliberated about how to handle the resulting disconnect between state and federal law.
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Despite the coalition's request that Decriminalize Sex Work end its efforts, the organization proceeded to file paperwork for the initiative, saying it had hoped to salvage the project before a looming deadline.
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DENVER (Reuters) - Voters in Denver appeared to have said "no" to a plan to decriminalize possession of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic drug in what is widely known as "magic mushrooms", partial results showed.
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Last year, Iowa Republican state representative Jeff Shipley introduced two bills in the legislature to decriminalize psilocybin used for medicinal purposes, and remove it from the list of schedule I controlled substances.
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We still have a ways to go, and passing legislation to decriminalize abortion in these critical cases will inch us closer to the safer, more prosperous society we all wish to see.
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The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has set up a marijuana commission which recently published recommendations to decriminalize the drug, with a view to rural development and boosting the income and rights of farmers.
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In 1973, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and, in 2015, it became the fourth state to legalize the sale of marijuana for recreational use.
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Related: Here's What to Expect at the Big Drug Meeting This Week at the UN When Portugal decided to decriminalize in 2000, many skeptics assumed that the number of users would skyrocket.
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The proposal would decriminalize crossing the border into the United States without authorization and separate law enforcement from immigration enforcement, a plan first proposed by fellow 2020 candidate Julián Castro that Warren endorsed.
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On Tuesday, Oakland's City Council voted unanimously to decriminalize the use of 'shrooms and other natural psychedelic or hallucinogenic drugs, including cacti, becoming the second city in the country to take this step.
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Backers are hoping it saves the city money The resolution was introduced by City Council member Noel Gallo and backed by Decriminalize Nature Oakland, a group that promotes natural psychedelics for health benefits.
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The plan includes many ambitious goals: decriminalize marijuana, eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent crimes, end the death penalty, abolish private prisons, get rid of cash bail, and discourage the incarceration of children.
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Warren endorsed measures to "decriminalize poverty," including ending the use of cash bail, which makes it hard for poor people to get out of jail when charged with minor or non-violent crimes.
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"I think today's outcome really demonstrates that the conversation is going to continue, and the world is ready for it," said Cindy Sovine, chief political strategist for the campaign to decriminalize the drug.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed frustration over dispensaries, and continues to rebuff calls to decriminalize marijuana before it becomes legal, saying that such a move would put children and communities at risk.
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Even if the feds decide to start targeting commercial cannabis activity, it likely wouldn't impede California's independent ability to decriminalize the drug and expunge past marijuana convictions on the state level, he noted.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce today that he'll be rescinding the "Cole memo," which allowed states to legalize or decriminalize marijuana without federal interference despite federal law banning the use of marijuana.
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Photo: Peter Dejong (Associated Press)For people who have not been following the fight to legalize psilocybin, it may seem like the movement to decriminalize magic mushrooms sprung up from the earth overnight.
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The rally was seen as the ruling coalition's response to a series of large anti-government street protests held against Social Democrat attempts to decriminalize several corruption offences via emergency decree last year.
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The Vermont senator said he would seek to expand protections for young undocumented migrants and their parents, temporarily halt deportations, decriminalize border crossings and "break up" the ICE, Customs, and Border Protection agencies.
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Organizations exist to help, such as Young Women's Empowerment Project, the Polaris Project, Survived & Punished, which organizes to decriminalize the stories of women like Cyntoia Brown, and the #GirlsToo movement with Girls, Inc.
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Marijuana reform is a hot topic in Washington D.C. this week, as a number of senators introduced bills to decriminalize the drug, as well as help cannabis companies access banking and insurance services.
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In another step toward legalization, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw his weight behind loosening marijuana laws on Thursday, telling Vice News that he will be introducing legislation to decriminalize the drug soon.
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"Magic" mushroom vote: Denver, which has been at the forefront of the debate over legalizing marijuana, will decide today whether to be the first city in the nation to effectively decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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Here are some recent trends from around the world: Efforts to decriminalize same-sex activity are expected in coming months in a number of countries, including Botswana, India, Kenya and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Warren's plan, which she spelled out in a new Medium post, would decriminalize marijuana and repeal large swaths of the 1994 crime bill, the most enduring product of the "tough on crime" era.
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The Department of Justice should respect the will of the people from these states that have voted to decriminalize marijuana and refrain from interfering in state matters by prosecuting people for marijuana charges.
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Biden could direct his attorney general to move marijuana to Schedule II. He could urge Congress to take action to decriminalize marijuana or pass some sort of legislation resolving the federal-state conflict.
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During the first Democratic debate, Castro stood out by pushing for his plan to decriminalize crossing the US border and for assertively challenging candidates on the stage who did not share his position.
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Botswana became the latest country to decriminalize gay sex when the High Court rejected as unconstitutional sections of the penal code that punish same-sex relations with up to seven years in prison.
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Related: Top US International Drug Official Signals Green Light for Countries to Decriminalize After decades of prohibition, 2016 could be the year governments around the world admit that the war on drugs has failed.
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who played a key role to decriminalize the potentially lucrative cash crop, said it would give farmers who are hurting from the loss of tobacco a significant boost.
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the Democratic presidential contender from Hawaii, told BuzzFeed News unequivocally she wants to decriminalize sex work, asserting a clear position on an enormous underground industry that's largely ignored by American politicians.
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It is imperative that the United States join with like-minded countries to advocate for policies that put health first, decriminalize users, and seek to reduce the harms of both drugs and drug policies.
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And the facts about prison and radicalization in Western Europe point to one logical response to terrorism (among all the other things that should be done) that might not seem so obvious: Decriminalize drugs.
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On Monday morning before the rally, Gentili, who is a steering committee member for the sex worker advocacy group Decrim NY, helped introduce a bill that would decriminalize sex work in New York state.
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Chuck Schumer to introduce a bill to "decriminalize" marijuana Fisher's name was removed from the waiting list and she'll have to reapply if she wants public housing, according to the Gazette's report on Monday.
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Montana Governor Steve Bullock, trying to make his mark during his first debate appearance, challenged Warren over her proposal to decriminalize border crossings, an issue that has tripped up several candidates this election season.
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The recommendations by Obasanjo's West Africa Commission on Drugs come as a number of countries look to decriminalize drug use, especially marijuana, after decades of enforcement appear to have done little to curb it.
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While they voted to decriminalize the recreational consumption of hallucinogens by a modest margin, they overwhelmingly chose to keep criminalizing homeless people for sleeping outside: 82 percent of them voted no on Initiative 20183.
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The Stop Violence in the Sex Trade Acts is a package of bills that seeks to amend state statues in order to decriminalize sex work between consenting adults while upholding existing anti-trafficking laws.
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Furthermore, not all of the countries where the feature is restricted are alike; Lebanon, for example, has made strides in recent years to decriminalize homosexual conduct...a far cry from Russia's level of persecution.
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Andrew Cuomo of New York recently asked the legislature to decriminalize minor marijuana possession (which can be used to deport even green-card holders), citing a "dramatic shift in public opinion" on the issue.
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Despite the meaty discussion of former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro's proposal to decriminalize border crossings early in the Democratic primary race, immigration has received a cursory treatment in the Democratic debates.
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"To pretend that this is what the entire porn industry is like denigrates exactly the people that they claim to be speaking for," Kaytlin Bailey, communications director for advocacy group Decriminalize Sex Work said.
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His memorable confrontation with former Representative Beto O'Rourke — a fellow Texan — during the first Democratic debate in June led to a broad discussion about whether to decriminalize border crossings, as Mr. Castro had suggested.
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Only recently have US cities like Denver and Oakland moved to decriminalize psilocybin; nationwide, it's still listed as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning it has no medicinal properties under official US federal policy.
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ALBANY — New York lawmakers, having fallen short in a push to fully legalize marijuana, have agreed to further decriminalize possession of the drug and automatically expunge many low-level marijuana convictions across the state.
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By the time Britain began to decriminalize homosexuality, in 1967, anti-gay stigmas and laws had become well entrenched in former colonies, often including pieces of the Victorian language that the British left behind.
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The White House claims Trump has long advocated LGBTQ equality, noting that this year he became the first Republican president to recognize Pride Month and that he has backed a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.
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Advocates for decriminalization have been wary of taking Harris's position at face value because of her history with the issue as the district attorney of San Francisco, when she opposed a measure to decriminalize prostitution.
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The US, whose top international drug official recently said that countries should be free to decriminalize drugs under the UN's three drug conventions, has reportedly kept a lower profile than other world powers in Geneva.
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Harris's plan, one that she's rolling out alongside House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY), would decriminalize the possession of marijuana at the federal level, an effort backed by many of her fellow 2020 Democrats.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A lawmaker from Romania's ruling Social Democrats proposed extending a draft bill granting prison pardons to include corruption offences, weeks after protests forced the government to abandon plans to decriminalize some graft charges.
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If teachers, administrators, and cops continue to criminalize children for violating what I have come to call a "cult of compliance," punishing them for acting in ways that come naturally, how can we decriminalize disability?
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Initiative 301, which seeks to decriminalize possessing and using mushrooms for personal use for those 473 and older by making it the lowest local law enforcement priority and blocking spending on penalties, had narrowly passed.
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Labour MP Diana Johnson is introducing the ten-minute bill to decriminalize abortion in Parliament, and politicians must vote in favor of the bill in order for it to progresses further to eventually become law.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - West African governments should overhaul their drug laws to decriminalize personal use and prioritize treatment as a response to rising substance abuse in the region, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Thursday announced a broad immigration policy that would decriminalize undocumented border crossing and end the use of privately run detention centers if she is elected president.
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Last week Bhutan's lower house of parliament voted to decriminalize gay sex but the amendment to the penal code still needs to pass the upper house of the Asian nation's parliament to come into effect.
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SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Legislation to effectively decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults in Utah overwhelmingly passed the state House of Representatives in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, moving it a step closer to becoming law.
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The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has called on El Salvador to repeal its total ban and immediately pass a law to decriminalize abortion at a minimum in limited circumstances.
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Encouraged by the Compassionate Use Act, legislation the couple never thought would happen, they started participating in political advocacy to decriminalize and expand medical marijuana during the 2017 legislative session, though those efforts fell short.
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To date, eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana fully, while more than half the states have at least made the jump to legalize some form of medical usage and/or decriminalize possession.
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The president set up the Commission for Individual Liberties and Equality (COLLIBE) in 2017, which recommended that Tunisia decriminalize same-sex relations and end forced anal examinations by police doctors on men suspected of being gay.
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"Marijuana remains illegal under federal law as a Schedule I controlled substance regardless of any actions to decriminalize its possession, use, or sale at the state and local level," a USCIS spokesperson said in a statement.
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"Marijuana remains illegal under federal law as a Schedule I controlled substance regardless of any actions to decriminalize its possession, use, or sale at the state and local level," a USCIS spokesperson said in a statement.
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Some previous attempts by the ruling coalition in Romania to decriminalize graft offences, reduce sentences and bring magistrates under political control have failed and the opposition said it would challenge the bill in the Constitutional Court.
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Two human rights groups on Wednesday called on U.S. states and the federal government to decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use, citing the damage done by more than 574,000 arrests for marijuana possession each year.
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White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere issued a lengthy statement pushing back on David's comments by highlighting a number of LGBTQ initiatives Trump has launched under his administration, including a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.
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SEOUL, South Korea — The Constitutional Court in South Korea on Thursday rejected a challenge to the country's ban on the sex trade, handing a defeat to prostitutes who have campaigned for years to decriminalize their work.
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Last May, the Kentucky senator said, "I do not have any plans to endorse legalization of marijuana," when asked about a bill introduced by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York to decriminalize the drug.
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Thus, we are cautiously optimistic about this new policy, as well as the City Council's proposal to create a civil rather than criminal process for these matters, and we urge the city to decriminalize these offenses.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Tunisian politician vying to become his country's first openly gay president has said he will push to decriminalize gay sex and insisted his candidacy should not be defined by his sexuality.
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In contrast to Mr. Sanders, he would not decriminalize unauthorized border crossings, but he is calling for a 100-day moratorium on deportations and says he would deport only people who have committed a serious crime.
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"These women can't expose their business and that makes them vulnerable to danger," says Mabel Au, director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, which is spearheading a campaign to decriminalize sex work in the city and elsewhere.
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" Kaytlin Bailey, 32, a former sex worker, current stand-up and communications director for Decriminalize Sex Work, said that sex workers and comedians occupy a similar role: "You're allowed to do things that normal citizens cannot.
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Voters in Denver, a city at the forefront of the widening national debate over legalizing marijuana, will decide on Tuesday whether to be the first in the nation to effectively decriminalize another recreational drug: hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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With the passage of the MORE Act today, the Judiciary Committee has taken long-overdue steps to address the devastating injustices caused by the War on Drugs and to finally decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
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Members of the Yang Gang can express their support for "money, math, and marijuana" (and, by extension, for Yang, who has promised to give every American $1,000 a month and decriminalize weed) with this T-shirt.
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"The case before Kenya's High Court seeking to decriminalize consensual same sex conduct is of monumental significance for Kenya and beyond," Neela Ghoshal, senior researcher in the LGBT Rights program at Human Rights Watch, told CNN.
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The move marks a major victory for Brittiany Hoagland and Samantha Six, the plaintiffs in the lawsuit first filed in 2016, and for the #FreeTheNipple movement, which aims to decriminalize female toplessness and promote gender equality.
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And, in the long term, we have to decriminalize possession of all drugs and shift the money spent locking people in cages and increasing their risk of overdose death over to providing compassionate, evidence-based treatment.
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In efforts to decriminalize around the country, advocates will avoid going anywhere near questioning the legitimate needs of an employer to ensure a safe work environment, justified or not, because it's "political poison" said Borst-Censullo.
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The Romanian Social Democrats fired their own prime minister, Sorin Grindeanu, earlier this year after he tried to decriminalize some forms of corruption, and several other cabinet ministers resigned last month – though the party remains in power.
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New York could become the first state to decriminalize sex work after a group of progressive legislators introduced a sweeping bill Monday aimed at placing the state in the vanguard of a growing sex workers' rights movement.
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LGBT, immigrant rights, harm reduction, and criminal justice reform groups, led by people who trade sex, launched the coalition Decrim NY, made up of 20-plus organizations, to decriminalize and decarcerate sex trade in New York state.
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Botswana is the latest country in Africa to decriminalize same sex relations, with Amnesty saying it follows Angola in January, Seychelles in June 2016, Mozambique in June 2015 and Sao Tome and Principe, and Lesotho in 2012.
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"The best we can do is decriminalize sex work so that sex workers who get robbed or raped—or bamboozled—can speak out immediately and not get re-traumatized by litigation further down the line," Trouble added.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians protested in Bucharest and the western city of Cluj on Wednesday against government plans to grant prison pardons and decriminalize some offences through emergency decrees that could weaken an anti-corruption drive.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Isle of Man is set to decriminalize abortion in a dramatic reform which will give the tiny island in the middle of the Irish Sea some of Europe's most liberal abortion laws.
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TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan plans to gradually implement hundreds of human rights recommendations from a United Nations council, it said on Wednesday, but it made a point of refusing to decriminalize homosexuality calling it irrelevant to its society.
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The decree would decriminalize abuse-of-power offences in which the sums do not exceed 200,000 lei ($48,000), potentially scuttling an ongoing trial of the governing Social Democrat party chief and benefiting dozens of other public officials.
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"—Billboard Cory Booker Says Weed Legalization Has 'Momentum'The New Jersey senator told VICE that his Marijuana Justice Act, which seeks to decriminalize weed federally, is part of a push to be on "the right side of history.
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For his part, Mr. Rice has proposed his own marijuana bill that would decriminalize the possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana, and make carrying more a disorderly persons charge that would impose only a fine.
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In a different time, Ms. Cabán's campaign promises to eliminate cash bail, decriminalize sex work and stop prosecuting most quality-of-life offenses might have conjured fears of rising crime, and drawn conservative voters to the polls.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has said that his administration would lead an effort to decriminalize homosexuality around the world, eliciting condemnation from activists who pointed to the administration's moves to dismantle protections for gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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Mr. Trump's announcement this month that his administration would lead an effort to decriminalize homosexuality across the world has been met with criticism, given his administration's rollback of rights at home for gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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Immigration: Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, repeatedly brought up his proposal to decriminalize illegal immigration, at one point asking Beto O'Rourke, a fellow Texan, why he would not support making it a civil offense.
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" Ronan Mullen, an independent member of the committee, opposed the repeal of the constitutional ban and any measures to decriminalize abortion, and he had earlier accused other members of the committee of having a "pro-choice bias.
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A groundbreaking campaign to make Washington, DC, the first city in the US to decriminalize sex work is foundering amid clashes between local activists and a national organization whose political director has been accused of sexual misconduct.
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Entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE and Sen.
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Booker introduced a bill last year that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, moving it from a Schedule 1 drug, and would provide incentives for states with "disproportionate arrest rate" on minority or low-income individuals.
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Bucharest's Victory Square witnessed large street protests at the start of the year following attempts by the ruling Social Democrats to decriminalize some graft offences and has been a gathering place for largely peaceful protests ever since.
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The human rights arms of the United Nations and Council of Europe have pressed the government to decriminalize abortion and widen the law to allow for the procedure in cases of fatal fetal abnormality, rape or incest.
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A ruling in Manuela's favor from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights could accomplish just that, she said, as the organization may recommend that the El Salvador decriminalize abortion or strengthen measures to protect female patients' privacy.
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She says she wants to end the prosecution of offenses like low-level marijuana possession and fare evasion on the NYC subway, supports the No New Jails movement in NYC, and backs the push to decriminalize sex work.
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A bill that would effectively decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults in Utah was unanimously endorsed by a state Senate committee this week, sending the legislation to the full chamber for a vote, The Salt Lake City Tribune reported.
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There is currently a bill before the Dominican Congress to decide whether to decriminalize abortion in three cases: when the mother's life is at risk; when the pregnancy is not viable; and in cases of rape and incest.
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It was local advocacy groups, such as DecrimNY, that pushed New York lawmakers to introduce the Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act on June 10, which could make the state the first to largely decriminalize sex work.
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An ordinance to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms in Denver that the L.A. Times reported was "the first of its kind put to a vote in the nation" failed on Tuesday, with results showing it failed 48 to 593 percent.
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With states continuing to legalize or decriminalize marijuana, scientists and entrepreneurs are rushing to invent a marijuana breathalyzer that would detect whether someone was impaired while driving, according to STAT, instead of relying on more subjective sobriety tests.
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A criminal justice plan Biden released on Tuesday would decriminalize marijuana, expunge past convictions and legalize it for medical purposes, but stopped short of legalizing recreational usage, which he has said should be left up to the states.
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The proposal would also immediately decriminalize possession of up to 50 grams of pot and limit fines to $100 and give the state's Department of Law and Public Safety the power to regulate licenses for growers and sellers.
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Groups in both areas are looking to decriminalize the use of psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found naturally in certain strains of mushrooms, and start a national conversation around the use of psychedelics to treat numerous mental health disorders.
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"I just don't think at this moment in time when we have a huge kind of surge at our border sending a message that we're going to decriminalize crossings is the right thing to do," Delaney told Hill.
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Relaxing marijuana laws has already emerged as a key issue in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary fight, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a bill in June to decriminalize and regulate the drug on a federal level.
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Muiznieks joined the United Nations Human Rights Committee in recommending that at a very minimum, the Irish government should decriminalize abortion and widen the law to allow for abortion in cases of fatal fetal abnormality, rape or incest.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Social Democrat government on Sunday annulled a decree that would decriminalize some graft offences, an embarrassing u-turn for the country's new prime minister in the face of week-long mass protests and international rebuke.
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In central Europe, Romania's leu edged lower but was set for its biggest weekly gain in a year despite hundreds of thousands of Romanians taking to the street to protest a government decree to decriminalize some graft offences.
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Thousands of Thai and migrant sex workers have learned from Empower to negotiate with bar and massage parlor owners for better conditions, and to lobby the government to decriminalize their work to improve their incomes, safety and wellbeing.
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SYDNEY, Australia — State lawmakers in Queensland voted on Wednesday to decriminalize abortion, scrapping a century-old law that had made it an offense punishable with prison time and making it the latest Australian state to loosen its restrictions.
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Denver residents first voted to decriminalize marijuana possession in 2004, years before Colorado voters ultimately approved its legalization statewide for recreational purposes, establishing a full regulatory framework to license retail outlets and collect sales taxes on cannabis products.
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Biden has defended himself by arguing that, while he opposes national legalization, he will still let states legalize, and he'll decriminalize at the federal level, letting out anyone who's locked up for marijuana possession and expunging their records.
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He wants to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings, instead treating them as civil offenses; offer a path to citizenship to "Dreamers" and other undocumented immigrants; and institute a Marshall Plan for Central America to help deter potential asylum-seekers.
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But when the Romanian government attempted to decriminalize a number of graft offenses soon after coming to power, signaling one of the boldest retreats from anticorruption efforts in the European Union, the public backlash was swift and fierce.
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South Australia came closer to legitimizing prostitution in the eyes of the law today, as a bill to fully decriminalize the trade passed the upper house of the state's Legislative Council in the early hours of the morning.
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Booker has been a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and he has authored legislation in the Senate that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, which has been joined by several of the other 2020 Democratic candidates.
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Washington (CNN)New York's Legislature has passed a bill that would create a path to expunge low-level convictions for marijuana and decriminalize possession of greater amounts of the drug following a failed effort at legalization earlier this week.
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Women's rights advocates, however, hope that a more liberal judiciary in Brazil will at least decriminalize abortion to help avoid deaths from botched terminations in a country where hundreds of thousands of women resort to clandestine clinics each year.
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Although it would represent a big shift in the criminal justice system, Des Jarlais thinks it is possible to decriminalize minor drug offenses and it would save money and allow law enforcement to focus on much more serious crimes.
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But the Denver and Oregon groups trying to decriminalize psilocybin point to research from New York University's Langone Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University, for example, that shows the drug can help cancer patients dealing with depression and anxiety.
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But on Sunday, he fleshed out that stance, spelling out the specific drugs he would decriminalize when found in small amounts and saying that the goal of decriminalization is to get more Americans into treatment and out of jail.
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Led by U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the Trump administration is launching a new push to decriminalize homosexuality around the globe, beginning Tuesday evening with a strategy dinner in Berlin with LGBTQ activists, NBC News' Josh Lederman reports.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Six western states expressed deep concerns on Wednesday over the Romanian government's decree to decriminalize some anti-graft offenses, saying they could undermine the European Union state's anti-corruption progress and put its international partnerships at risk.
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The legacy of Grindeanu's government also includes a failed attempt at the start of the year to decriminalize several corruption offences, a move foiled by the largest street protests in Romania since the 1989 fall of its communist regime.
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More boldly, they want to offer strategic guidance (alongside similar groups like Decriminalize Nature, which won its own shroom victory in Oakland, California) to others hungry for psychedelic decriminalization—and perhaps even later pursue recreational legalization—across the country.
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In the past month, public health authorities in Toronto and Montreal made international news by calling for drug decriminalization — following in the footsteps of the city of Vancouver, which officially recommended in March that the Canadian government decriminalize drugs.
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"Come on guys," businessman Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE sighed.
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In reality, the mission is ineffective, said Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, a Liberal MP in Toronto's east end, who has long held progressive drug policy stances and has called on his own party to go further to decriminalize other drugs.
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His decriminalization position marks a bit of a shift for Biden, who served as vice president in the Obama administration, which did not move to decriminalize marijuana, reschedule the drug or publicly support automatically expunging of criminal records of marijuana offenses.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Social Democrats have filed a slew of new changes to the criminal code that would decriminalize several graft offences, including some abuse of office crimes, their second attempt this year to weaken a crackdown on corruption.
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Yang, a startup veteran and founder of the nonprofit Venture for America who has never run for elected office before, had already added a "decriminalize opioids" plank to the list of nearly 100 enumerated policy stances on his campaign website.
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The big debate of the night was over Medicare for All, which Sanders and Warren embraced and the moderates derided, but the candidates also sparred over whether Warren's plan to decriminalize border crossings was a bridge too far for voters.
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That is, whatever spurred teenagers to start using also hurt their IQ. The backstory Research on how marijuana affects the developing brain goes back decades, but has heated up as more US states decriminalize or legalize the drug for adults.
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A good deal for anyone but Fluck, who helped lead the ballot campaign to essentially decriminalize magic mushrooms in this city by making enforcement an extremely low priority, a measure that passed by the slimmest of margins early last month.
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Having gotten to know Joslyn over the past two years, I wanted to ask her about her important work as a sex surrogate and how sex and disability are major arguments in the movement to decriminalize sex surrogacy in Canada.
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MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mexico City lawmakers have given the green light to decriminalize sex work in the capital, hoping it will be a first step to a crackdown on sex trafficking that traps thousands of Mexican women and children.
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They should regulate and decriminalize drugs and help people with a drug problem and put all those people that are dealing with drugs, they should concentrate on all the vulnerable people that are being hurt in this way I think.
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READ: Booker slams Biden for embracing Obama when it's convenient The two candidates were locked in an exchange over immigration and Biden questioned why Casto hadn't brought up his desire to decriminalize border crossings in the many meetings they attended together.
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Castro, who has sparred with other Democratic candidates on his proposal to decriminalize crossing the U.S. border illegally, also told NPR that reducing the recent influx of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador would require increased aid to those nations.
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"We recognize that people are using drugs that are illegal and we also recognize that people are dying at astronomical rates," said Kassandra Frederique, the New York director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization that wants to decriminalize drug use.
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Charles Norfleet/Getty Images If states don't want prosecutors to continue filing charges for certain crimes, one thing they could do is simply decriminalize or remove felony penalties from those offenses — therefore eliminating prosecutors' ability to file charges at all.
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Kaytlin Bailey, communications director for Decriminalize Sex Work, told BuzzFeed News that she accepted the concerns of sex workers in DC. "Sex workers in DC asked us with one voice to get out, and we are honoring that," she said.
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" Despite the fact that activists have repeatedly raised Kampia's role in the movement, Bailey, Decriminalize Sex Work's communications director, said the organization planned to continue working with him, although she acknowledged that questions had been raised about his role. "Absolutely.
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Beto O'Rourke, who was seeking to reset his campaign after a poor debate performance last month, stood by his refusal to decriminalize the border, despite the policy earning support from a broad array of candidates including Castro, Sanders, Warren, Sen.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and businessman Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE.
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The Hawaii State Senate has until April 22000 to vote on a bill that would commission a study to explore whether the state should decriminalize all drugs for personal use, including so-called "hard drugs" like meth, cocaine, and heroin.
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The Hawaii State Senate has until April 26 to vote on a bill that would commission a study to explore whether the state should decriminalize all drugs for personal use, including so-called "hard drugs" like meth, cocaine, and heroin.
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Read more:Trump's new ambassador to Germany caused an international incident with a controversial interview in BreitbartRichard Grenell takes up duties as US ambassador to GermanyTrump seemed to know nothing about his own administration's plan to decriminalize homosexuality around the world
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But the American Embassy in Berlin confirmed in a statement that he had met with the European gay and transgender rights activists and that Mr. Grenell had viewed the meeting as "the start of a specific push" to decriminalize homosexuality everywhere.
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Today, sex worker rights organizations like the English Collective of Prostitutes are calling to decriminalize sex work in the country, while other former sex workers are fighting for the right to be able to wipe their criminal records of prostitution charges.
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Given recent efforts to decriminalize sex work in state legislatures and debates in Congress about the ramifications of some anti-trafficking laws on sex workers, BuzzFeed News asked all the 2020 presidential candidates, including President Donald Trump, to lay out their stance.
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The legislation aims to decriminalize abortion in certain cases that include: a pregnancy that puts the life and health of the woman at risk, a medical diagnosis where the fetus cannot survive, a pregnancy resulting from sexual violence, or a human trafficking pregnancy.
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According to drafts, the government intends among other changes to decriminalize abuse of power actions causing financial damage of less than 200,000 lei ($47,500), an offence the leader of the ruling Social Democrat party is accused of inciting a third party to commit.
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Decriminalization efforts have moved a little further in Denver, where advocates have already started gathering signatures to put an initiative of their own on the municipal ballot in May 27 that would decriminalize personal use, possession, and growth at the local level.
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Decriminalization efforts have moved a little further in Denver, where advocates have already started gathering signatures to put an initiative of their own on the municipal ballot in May 23 that would decriminalize personal use, possession, and growth at the local level.
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But the residents of Huepetuhe, whose town square is dominated by a golden statue of a muscular miner, see a shimmer of hope in presidential election front-runner Keiko Fujimori's promise to decriminalize the makeshift mines at the heart of the region's economy.
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Photo: J. Scott Applewhite (AP)Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon today proposed legislation that would decriminalize cannabis at the federal level and allow states where weed use is legal to operate as they see fit without fear of a U.S. government crackdown.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand plans to decriminalize abortion and treat it is as a health issue, the government said on Monday in the first major reform to abortion laws in more than four decades that some activists said fell short of expectations.
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The Vermont senator said he would seek to expand protections for young undocumented migrants and their parents, temporarily halt deportations, decriminalize border crossings and "break up" the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agencies, among a bevy of other measures.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Calls to decriminalize abortion grew louder in Indonesia on Wednesday after a teenage girl who was raped by her brother was jailed for six months for terminating her pregnancy, sparking anger among activists who demanded her immediate release.
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Along the way she dated glamorously, punched a hole in the glass ceiling of the West Coast advertising business and wrote "Sex and the Single Girl," which, in 1962, dared to celebrate the adventurous lives of single women and decriminalize coitus without matrimony.
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Botswana became the latest in a series of African countries to decriminalize gay sex, with rights group Amnesty International saying it followed Angola in January, Seychelles in June 2016, Mozambique in June 2015 and Sao Tome and Principe, and Lesotho in 2012.
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Unable to reach agreement on a deal to fully legalize marijuana, lawmakers on Thursday agreed on something of a half-measure, passing a bill that will further decriminalize possession of the drug and automatically expunge many low-level marijuana convictions across the state.
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Such enforcement is a friction against a countervailing priority for the police: to decriminalize addiction and offer treatment rather than arrest as a way to tackle an ongoing opioids crisis that has led to increasing numbers of fatal overdoses in New York.
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Plans by the Social Democrat-led ruling coalition to overhaul the judiciary and amend legislation to decriminalize some graft offences have drawn criticism from the EU, the U.S. State Department and Romanian magistrates, and have triggered large street protests since early 2017.
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Saagar Enjeti describes how ethnicity comes into Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE's campaign.
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But there has been a sharp divergence both in messaging and on key policy questions, like whether to decriminalize the border and how to reform (or dismantle, in some cases) the deportation system, particularly with regard to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
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" Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE said "we are all going to love driving EVs.
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On Monday, more than 100 sex workers, state lawmakers, and activists gathered in Manhattan's Foley Square to mark the launch of their new coalition, Decrim NY. The group wants to make New York the first state in the US to decriminalize sex work.
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Cabán, who is of Puerto Rican descent and identifies as queer, hinged her campaign on a promise to effectively decriminalize a series of low-level offenses that law enforcement and prosecutors began cracking down on during the "tough on crime" era of the early 1990s.
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Warren advocated for an end to private insurance as part of implementing Medicare for All, Booker drew a contrast with his competitors with his plan to require a federal license to own a gun and Castro attacked O'Rourke for not wanting to decriminalize border crossings.
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"Much is said about promoting 'made in Italy,' but then they try to decriminalize adulterated oil," Mr. Fazzi lamented, joining a chorus of critics, including trade associations and farm lobbies, that fear for the reputation of Italian extra-virgin olive oil if the decree passes.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians rallied in Bucharest and cities across the country on Sunday to protest against government plans to decriminalize some offences and pardon some convicted prisoners through emergency decrees that critics say threaten to undermine a crackdown on high-level graft.
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President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday met with 11 activists in Europe as a part of a worldwide effort aimed at persuading countries to decriminalize being gay — a move met with almost immediate skepticism from LGBTQ activists in the U.S., given Trump's previous policies.
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If we decriminalize drugs and move towards a public health framework it will be easier to expand medication-assisted treatment services that have been proven to work and we can open ourselves up to new solutions like drug checking services and supervised consumption sites.
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Cuomo's position on the issue has evolved since 2012, when he proposed that state legislators move to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana that are in public view, saying the aim was to avoid unnecessary misdemeanor charges against thousands of New Yorkers.
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In Atlanta, Kwanza Hall, a City Council member, introduced legislation this year that would decriminalize a series of low-level crimes — including spitting, panhandling, moving household goods at night and loitering around railroad tracks — that he said had been used to target African-Americans.
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Outraged at a president who has gone as far as seizing toddlers from their undocumented parents, a progressive vanguard seeks to decriminalize border crossing, ban deportations, end detention, "abolish ICE" (the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) and make undocumented migrants eligible for government aid.
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And on Monday, a handful of state legislators spoke out in support of Decrim NY, a new coalition fighting to decriminalize sex work, and described plans to introduce related legislation in Albany that could have a shot at passing given the legislature's new makeup.
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Mr. Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, dominated the segment devoted to immigration, promoting his proposal to decriminalize illegal immigration — a policy that Ms. Warren has adopted in recent days and that Republicans have gleefully highlighted to argue that Democrats support open borders.
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Magic mushrooms are still illegal in the United States, but some cities have decriminalized the substanceIn May 2019, Denver, Colorado, became the first US state to decriminalize psilocybin for personal use for people who are 21 or older, and Oakland, California, soon followed suit.
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Laced through his policy agenda is a consistent effort to expand the moral circle: to decriminalize the movements of undocumented immigrants, to involve the homeless in housing policy, to establish American obligations to those displaced by climate change, to protect animals from human cruelty.
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"I would not repeal the tariffs on Day 1," said entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE.
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE on Wednesday said in an interview with Hill.
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Vowing to eliminate private health insurance, decriminalize illegal immigration and provide government health care benefits to undocumented migrants, high-profile contenders like Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are wagering that they can energize voters eager to dismantle President Trump's hard-line policies.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Undeterred by death threats, a leading pro-choice campaigner said on Thursday that she is ready to give evidence to Brazil's top court in a hearing that could pave the way to decriminalize abortion, an issue which divides the Catholic nation.
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Sex work is currently illegal in both Maryland and Washington, DC. In DC, City Council member David Grosso has put forward a bill to decriminalize sex work in the city, with the aim of making it easier for sex workers to report violence to the police.
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Rather, the fight to decriminalize and legitimize sex work as labor—strenuous, demanding, and undercompensated, to be exact—requires that we recognize it, as a central part of many women's experiences, is so many other things, too; a context in which women are surviving—and living.
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Legislators and activists have been pushing for New York lawmakers to address this problem for more than six years with a bill known as the Reproductive Health Act, or RHA, which would decriminalize abortions after 24 weeks by amending the state's laws to comply with federal laws.
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Proposals to decriminalize border crossings, which are fast gaining steam on the left, have alarmed former Obama administration officials, who warn that it is tantamount to an open borders policy and will be exploited by Republicans in the 2020 election to cast Democrats as extreme on immigration.
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"I already proposed and passed $750 million for Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to be able to change the circumstance why people fled in the first place," Biden said Wednesday in defending his position to not decriminalize border crossings as Democratic candidate Julian Castro has proposed.
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Bailey and a Decriminalize Sex Work staffer involved in the effort told BuzzFeed News that initial conversations with local activists had been largely positive, but the staffer said he was confronted by members of the Sex Worker Advocates Coalition (SWAC) on a conference call in January.
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According to drafts published on Wednesday, the government intends - among other changes - to decriminalize abuse of power actions causing financial damage of less than 200,000 lei ($47,500), an offence the leader of the ruling Social Democrat party is accused of inciting a third party to commit.
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CNN's "State of the Union": Buttigieg, entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic primary contender Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE, Sen.
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The bill's Republican sponsor, Senator Deidre Henderson, has said her intent is not to legalize polygamy but to decriminalize it so that those from polygamous communities who are victims of crimes can come forward for help or to seek social services without fear of being prosecuted themselves.
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Mr. Biden responded that while he didn't fully support legalization, he did want reforms such as decriminalization: BIDEN: Number one, I think we should decriminalize marijuana, period, and anyone who has a record should be let out of jail, their record expunged, be completely zeroed out.
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Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE is raising eyebrows for his sartorial choices at another Democratic presidential debate.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) and tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE all pulling 2202 percent support.
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Together, as so many of our young people have received criminal records for nonviolent offenses, we have fought to end the war on drugs, and have seen state after state decriminalize marijuana, and have seen communities expunge the criminal records of those arrested on these charges.
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Related: Top US International Drug Official Signals Green Light for Countries to Decriminalize The cops eventually yielded and passed the situation off to members of Secret Service, who blocked the giant fake doob from entering Lafayette Park in front of the White House for security reasons.
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But with Amnesty International's recent unflinching policy recommendation to decriminalize all adult consensual sex work - including their take-down of the Nordic model which claims to punish only clients - it is becoming increasingly difficult for naysayers to ignore the well-documented ways that sex workers are harmed by criminalization.
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Washington's top international narcotics official gave a qualified go-ahead for countries to decriminalize drugs on Tuesday — the latest sign that the US is walking back decades of hardline rhetoric ahead of a pivotal special session of the United Nations General Assembly on global drug policy in April.
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Castro has touted an immigration plan that would decriminalize crossing the border by doing away with a provision, known as Section 1325, of the Immigration and Nationality Act that applies a criminal violation to anyone crossing the border illegally, as opposed to treating it as a civil infraction.
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Other provisions in the platform include support for workers earning at least $15 an hour -- though the platform doesn't call for a $15 federal minimum wage, one of Sanders' signature issues -- adopting a tougher tax policy against corporations, expanding Social Security and supporting states that choose to decriminalize marijuana.
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" Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at The Magazine, joined WNYC Radio's The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss her recent magazine cover story on the growing movement to decriminalize prostitution: "There's a lot of tension, and Amnesty [International] got a great deal of blowback for its recommendation last fall.
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"Our victory is a clear signal to the rest of the country that the American people are ready for a larger conversation around psilocybin and drug policy reform in general," Kevin Matthews, the leader of the "Decriminalize Denver" movement, which placed the initiative on the ballot, told The Rooster.
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Castro has pushed his Democratic opponents to embrace his proposal to decriminalize the act of crossing the border without authorization by repealing section 13 of the Immigration and Nationality Act — one of the legal provisions that allowed the Trump administration to separate thousands of immigrant families in 2018.
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Clinton's 2011 speech before a United Nations body in Geneva that "gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights" represented an ambitious bid by the United States to lead a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and expand the legal rights of gay and transgender people.
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Cory Booker, who pushed for baby bonds; author Marianne Williamson and her ideas about spreading love; Former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro had proposals to deal with poverty and, notably, wanted to decriminalize border crossings, a 180-degree departure from the current President, who wants to build a wall.
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Then there's the 2020 Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act (DATRA), a sweeping proposal for reform based on the drug policy model in Portugal that would decriminalize low-level possession of nearly all drugs, greatly expand access to treatment services, and encourage people to make use of them.
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Democratic hopefuls Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro will also attend.
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Democratic hopefuls Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro will also attend.
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Would decriminalize migration For starters — and the likely headline feature — Section VI of the bill would repeal 2023 USC §1325(a) and 8 USC §1326 which make illegal entry into the United States a crime and makes it a crime to reenter the United States after being deported.
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Ocasio-Cortez is also passionate about fighting to decriminalize and legalize marijuana, another Schedule 1 drug While serving on the Financial Services Committee, Ocasio-Cortez commented on the racial wealth gap that exists as the legalization of marijuana continues across the country and white-owned business selling the product are created.
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This month, Mr. Trump nodded to Pride Month for the first time since taking office, when he announced that his administration had begun a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality, a move that was criticized by activists who pointed to the administration's record on gay, bisexual and transgender issues at home.
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New York was one of the first states to decriminalize abortion, but its abortion laws were actually just an exception in the criminal code: In 211, the state removed a ban on abortions before 26 weeks of pregnancy and on abortions after 218 weeks if the woman's life was in danger.
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Tech businessman Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE led Trump in the Emerson poll of New Hampshire 54 percent to 46 percent.
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Opinion by: Saagar Enjeti Yesterday Krystal and I talked about the New York Times' sliming of Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE.
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White House hopeful Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE shared a video of himself crowdsurfing in a room full of supporters on Sunday.
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Presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE promised he will do something "big" and "unprecedented" while on the debate stage Thursday.
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As Marijuana Moment first reported in late November, Decriminalize Nature, a group that formed in California and has been spearheading local initiatives elsewhere, has said that around 100 cities were seeing signs of campaigns—movements that aim to significantly reduce the penalties for possessing substances like psilocybin, ibogaine, and others.
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Immigration: a liberalization in both laws and rhetoric Sanders/Warren: Decriminalize crossing the border, expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, reshape ICE and CBP, increase the number of refugees the US admits to 2250,2000 annually (Warren), repeal 25 immigration laws (Sanders), and support all Biden policies below.
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In 85033 Tennessee passed a "safe harbor" law, which — according to the American Bar Association — is intended to: However, data from the FBI uniform crime report suggests that juveniles continue to be arrested for prostitution in states that pass safe harbor laws or other legislation meant to decriminalize sex trafficked youth.
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" Piet Hein van Kempen, a professor of criminal law and criminal procedure at Radboud University in the Netherlands, was recently asked by the Justice Ministry to study if international drug treaties offer any wiggle room to "legalize, decriminalize, tolerate and/or regulate cannabis in any other way for recreational use.
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In a crowded race of six Democratic candidates, Cabán's progressive platform has pushed further left than the rest, including vowing to end the prosecution of low-level offenses like marijuana possession and fare evasion on the NYC subway, support for NYC's No New Jails movement, and the push to decriminalize sex work.
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" On its website, Decriminalize Denver says, "Humans have used these mushrooms for thousands of years for healing, rites of passage, spiritual insight, strengthening community, and raising consciousness," The group also argues that "One arrest is too many for something with such low and manageable risks for most people, relative to its potential benefits.
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When asked if the outcome of UNGASS 2016 would give countries the green light to decriminalize the possession and use of illegal substances, Brownfield responded by trying to offer some clarification into the language of the drug treaties, saying they were never intended to put people in jail for simply using drugs.
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Julian CastroJulian CastroCastro qualifies for next Democratic primary debates Castro releases animal welfare plan as part of presidential campaign Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE, a White House hopeful and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary, stood out at Wednesday's debate for his impassioned plea to decriminalize illegal border crossings.
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TV's "Rising" earlier this month that he believes President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE would support legislation to protect states that decriminalize marijuana.
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The party many Americans saw this week is one that seems to want to decriminalize border crossings, provide taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal immigrants, take over vast swathes of the private economy, and spend trillions on progressive priorities that can only be funded with large tax increases and even more government borrowing.
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Exploring issues such as migration, police violence, and poverty, and sex workers' autonomy (which is especially important, given long-standing efforts to decriminalize sex work in the US), the Sex Workers' Pop-Up also features a robust slate of events that examine the experiences and challenges faced by those working in this field.
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The founder and host of the left-leaning online show "The Young Turks" named tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE and Sen.
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Tech entrepreneur and political newcomer Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE notches 7 percent support in the survey, with Harris following at 6 percent support.
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Presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE said on Twitter that he will sit down with ousted "Saturday Night Live" comedian Shane Gillis.
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Related: Top US International Drug Official Signals Green Light for Countries to Decriminalize In October 2012, then-Minister for Education Vincent Peillon noted that French drug policy was "somewhat lagging behind" that of its European neighbors and international allies, many of which have voted to partially or totally legalize weed over the past few years.
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As Women's Equality Party leader Sophie Walker notes in the Independent, it was originally written in as a loophole in the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, which made abortion a criminal offence punishable by up to life imprisonment: It may be a groundbreaking piece of legislation, but the Abortion Act doesn't actually decriminalize abortion.
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The Trump administration is not going to accept the U.N. report's argument that the recent tax cuts primarily benefited the wealthy nor that more needs to be done to decriminalize poverty, but it could at least pretend that poverty matters and that a damning report about U.S. poverty should not be dismissed out of hand.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE (D-Mass.), a top tier candidate, for joining him in his call to decriminalize illegal border crossings.
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Privately, Mr. Pence and his aides have tried to signal that his views on gay rights are not as extreme as critics have said, and at least one defender in the Trump administration has spoken publicly in support: Richard Grenell, the United States ambassador to Germany, who recently announced an initiative to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.
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Tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE was the runner-up against the president, winning 54 percent of voters in a head-to-head race.
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE blew kisses to the debate camera at the end of the Democratic presidential debate on Thursday night.
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MIAMI, Florida — Former housing secretary Julián Castro dominated on one of the biggest issues in Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate — pushing his plan to decriminalize crossing the US border without documents in a week when Democrats have been rushing to make humane treatment of migrants a centerpiece of their campaigns, following several particularly grim immigration stories.
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Those are just a few of the famous names signed to a letter written by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-International (CATW) opposing Amnesty International's new proposal to decriminalize sex work — a proposal Amnesty based on four research reports about sex workers in low-, middle-, and high-income countries in four regions around the world.
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Although congresswoman Lorena Villavicencio, from the National Regeneration Movement (known by its acronym in Spanish MORENA), presented a bill to decriminalize abortion up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy nationwide, her effort to amend the Federal Criminal Code has been called into question because it doesn't repeal any of the sanctions against women who have abortions.
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Pot smoke wafted across the White House lawn on Saturday as activists, toting a 50-foot inflatable joint and a cage to highlight the absurdity of locking up marijuana users, called on President Obama to remove pot from the DEA's dangerous drug list, to decriminalize pot at the federal level and to release the country's remaining pot prisoners.
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"What we've found is for the most part people who tend to be opposed initially, once they hear the research — once they hear that Johns Hopkins University and NYU have been conducting studies on psilocybin for almost 20 years now — they come around," Kevin Matthews, the campaign director for the Decriminalize Denver movement, told VICE News before the vote.
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Along with Johnetta Elzie, Brittany Packnett, and Samuel Sinyangwe, Mckesson launched Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence with key points such as to decriminalize such crimes as trespassing, marijuana possession, loitering, public disturbance, consuming alcohol on streets with reasoning that these crimes do not threaten public safety, but are often used to police black bodies.
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"We've learned this lesson many times with the prohibition of alcohol, or criminalization of abortion, or even the criminalization of marijuana: The black market creates dark circumstances and provides cover for a lot of violence and exploitation," said Kaytlin Bailey, a comedian and former prostitute who serves as the spokeswoman for Decriminalize Sex Work, which was founded last year.
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Mia Faiumu, 18, and Narjis al-Zaidi, 17, two leaders of the feminist club at the school, Wellington East Girls' College, hoped Ms. Ardern would improve the national curriculum for sex and consent education as well as decriminalize abortion, as she had promised (abortion is permissible in New Zealand with a doctor's approval but remains illegal).
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Instead, Ms. Spellman is one of the architects of a bill before the District of Columbia Council that would make it the first American city to decriminalize prostitution, placing the nation's capital at the forefront of a growing movement that seeks to permit the activities of prostitutes, as well as pimps and johns, and to allow bordellos.
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Rather than listing the sixth-place candidate, Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE, who was polling at 3 percent, it skipped right over him and instead included former Rep.
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Wade | Dems threaten to subpoena Juul MORE (I-Vt.) and entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE both declined invitations to participate, citing scheduling conflicts, according to CNN.
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Tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE has been one of the primary's biggest surprises, coming from nowhere to raise millions from his "Yang Gang" of donors.
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE's campaign said Monday that it has received more than 22019,000 entries for a contest to promote his "Freedom Dividend" proposal.
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Related: Iran Is About to Execute Another 100 Prisoners for Drug Offenses Washington's top international narcotics official gave a qualified go-ahead for countries to decriminalize drugs on Tuesday — the latest sign that the US is walking back decades of hardline rhetoric ahead of a pivotal special session of the United Nations General Assembly on global drug policy in April.
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Many people roll their eyes when they think of a sex-worker community policing itself, but I think it would be very powerful and effective to let current or retired sex workers be the bridge to law enforcement and social services — because even if we decriminalize sex work, it's still going to be an industry shrouded in stigma and secrecy.
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We need to continue to fight discrimination at all levels of government and in all 50 states, as I did at the State Department, where we strengthened the department's policies on anti-discrimination, worked with global advocates and other stakeholders in encouraging countries to decriminalize same-sex relationships and supported policies that extended benefits and additional protections to LGBT individuals.
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Romania, a country of 20 million which hosts a U.S. ballistic missile defense station, remains among the poorest and most corrupt members of the EU. Several more thousands protesting against graft and politicians' attempts to decriminalize several corruption offenses gathered in the Transylvanian cities of Cluj, Sibiu and Brasov, in Timisoara on the border with Serbia, and in the eastern city of Iasi.
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Oakland Becomes Second U.S. City to Decriminalize Magic MushroomsFor people who have not been following the fight to legalize psilocybin, it may seem like the…Read more ReadThis is very promising research, but it's important to remember that the sale and possession of psilocybin remains illegal in the U.S., though possession of it has been decriminalized in Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California.
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Entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE has been particularly vocal about the issue, embracing a monthly stipend of $85033,000 for every American adult to reduce income inequality and balance the effects of automation.
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To put things in perspective, at this time four years ago, Trump was in the territory of where Democrats Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE (85033 percent), Gabbard (1 percent) and Sen.
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE on Sunday defended the legality of his campaign contest to give 22019 families a share of $120,000 as a way to promote his "freedom dividend" proposal.
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE will reportedly announce a $120,000 giveaway during Thursday night's primary debate — a move that he left as a surprise but said would be "unprecedented," Politico reports.
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The specific statutes covering sex work vary by city and state, but the DC law also broadly aims to fully decriminalize the sex trade for consenting adults, according to Jessica Raven who is a member of the Decrim NY steering committee and a founding member of Decrim Now DC. That bill would also establish a task force to study the impact of the changes.
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Castro pointedly reminded the crowd that he released his detailed immigration plan nearly two months ago, and that it too includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented people, and goes further to decriminalize crossing the border into the US. "This president thinks he's going to win in 2020 on the backs of our immigrants and I'm determined to make sure that he loses," he said.
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Carper also hardened his rhetoric against President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and recently co-sponsored the first marijuana policy reform bill of his 17-year Senate career, pushing to decriminalize it at the federal level.
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Biden's plan seeks to protect LGBTQ asylum seekers; reinstitute Obama-era federal prison guidelines to house trans inmates according to their gender identity; reinstitute guidelines banning federally funded shelters from housing homeless trans people according to their assigned sex at birth; put forth efforts to destigmatize and decriminalize HIV transmission; offer protections for LGBTQ seniors; and offer support for a federal ban on conversion therapy.
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE announced at Thursday's primary debate that his campaign will use funds raised from his supporters for a pilot program meant to resemble his universal basic income proposal.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardTrump's 'soldier of fortune' foreign policy Beto needs to revive talk about his 'war tax' proposal Gabbard: 'Debate or no debate we are driving forward' MORE, Harris and New York entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE.
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Perhaps more ominously for Harris, she took fifth place in an Emerson College poll surveying her home state of California on Tuesday, trailing Biden, Warren and Sanders, as well as tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE.
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Entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE said that new "Saturday Night Live" cast member Shane Gillis, who has reportedly referred to the presidential candidate using a racial slur and made other racist remarks, should not lose his job.
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Elizabeth Warren on the issues in under 500 words Where the candidates stand on Medicare for All Read Biden's criminal justice plan Kamala Harris introduces a bill to decriminalize marijuana Bernie Sanders' criminal justice plan Where the top 2020 Democrats stand on criminal justice reform Where the 2020 Democrats stand on gun control Day 1 immigration policy plans Elizabeth Warren on trade Buttigieg on foreign policy
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" Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE has linked obesity to mental health by stating on his website "if someone comes to the hospital suffering from diabetes, obesity, or substance abuse, there is often a link to their holistic mental health.
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Attorney General Jeff Session told The Hill earlier this month that he hasn't talked to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE about legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level but believes the president would support a bill that protected states that do so.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's eldest son took aim at Out Magazine on Wednesday after an op-ed in the magazine slammed the Trump administration's push to decriminalize homosexuality around the world as a "racist" distraction.
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Beto O'RourkeBeto O'RourkeBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll CNN announces details for LGBTQ town hall Manchin: 'Beto O'Rourke is not taking my guns away from me' MORE (D-Texas) and businessman Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE earned support from 22019 percent of respondents.
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"As many states decriminalize marijuana, the public's attitudes and trends of thinking toward drugs will also have a bad effect" on the fight against fentanyl and other opioids, Yu said, according to the AP. China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported that the fentanyl factory raid occurred in Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong, and said police seized more than 20 kilograms of "other psychoactive substances," along with 150 kilograms of raw materials used to manufacture drugs.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Defense bill talks set to start amid wall fight Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity MORE (D-Calif) at 5 percent and tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE at 4 percent.
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Tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE and former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Biden allies: Warren is taking a bite out of his electability argument Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat MORE tied for third place with 28503 percent each.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Defense bill talks set to start amid wall fight Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity MORE (D-Calif.) in fourth place with 2202 percent, followed by businessman Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE with 2628 percent and South Bend, Ind.
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Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzGOP signals unease with Barr's gun plan NRA says Trump administration memo a 'non-starter' Barr fails to persuade Cruz on expanded background checks MORE (R-Texas) and Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE have informally agreed to play each other in a one-on-one basketball game for charity on Friday in Houston.
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Hill TV's Jamal Simmons in the democratic debate spin room with Julian CastroJulian CastroMedia and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity CNN announces details for LGBTQ town hall New poll finds Biden, Warren in virtual tie in Iowa MORE and Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE Opinion by: Krystal Ball Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Wednesday said in an interview with Hill.
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ET features first part of a three-part Krystal Ball interview with presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE; New York Times writers Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin, co-authors of The Education of Brett Kavanaugh; Kayleigh McEnany, the national press secretary for the Trump reelection campaign; Dan Rosenzweig, CEO of the education technology company Chegg, and higher education specialist Ajita Talwalker Menon, who both talk about resolving resolving college student debt problems.
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New York City Mayor Bill de BlasioBill de BlasioNearly 60 US mayors pen op-ed backing Buttigieg's 2020 bid Gabbard drives coverage in push to qualify for October debate Poll: Biden holds five-point lead over Warren among New York Democrats MORE (D) called out fellow Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE for erroneously referring to Puerto Rico as a "country" in the third Democratic presidential debate Thursday.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE told The Hill that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE hasn't talked to him about legislation to decriminalize federal marijuana laws, but that he believed the president would support legislation to protect states that do so.
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J.) and Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to meet with lawmakers | Big tech defends efforts against online extremism | Trump attends secretive Silicon Valley fundraiser | Omar urges Twitter to take action against Trump tweet Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity MORE (D-Minn.), Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, it's an opportunity to deliver a breakout performance and jump from low to middling polling numbers.
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Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Poll: Biden leads Democratic field by 10 points in Florida CNN announces details for LGBTQ town hall MORE says Medicare For All who want it, Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Biden allies: Warren is taking a bite out of his electability argument Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat MORE says Medicare for choice, Beto says medicare for America, Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE says….
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Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Defense bill talks set to start amid wall fight Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity MORE (D-Calif.) and former tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE have been climbing in the Democratic presidential race, while the three front-runners – former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Biden allies: Warren is taking a bite out of his electability argument Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat MORE, Sen.
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