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decriminalize

 verb
     
Related topics: Law
de‧crim‧in‧a‧lize also decriminalise British English [transitive]
SCL to state officially that something is not illegal any more:
a campaign to decriminalize cannabis
—decriminalization noun [uncountable]
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