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Decriminalize
To remove a tiny fragment of a statutory problem, while maintaining the majority of the statute(s), and continuing the statute's use as a revenue generator for governments, police, prison guard unions, lawyers, the court system, and "potentially competing industries."
The harassment would still exist. Excuses like when a cop says "I thought I smelled something" would still be "uncontestable evidence usable in court." You'd still have your herb "civilly forfeited." You'll still get "ticketed." You'll still pay fines. "I thought I smelled..." would still entitle "authority figures" to car searches, home raids, body cavity searches, and everything else it currently does. You won't have a "criminal" record...but you'll still have an "offense record." And that "no longer a criminal" record will still be used against you, at every opportunity.
The harassment would still exist. Excuses like when a cop says "I thought I smelled something" would still be "uncontestable evidence usable in court." You'd still have your herb "civilly forfeited." You'll still get "ticketed." You'll still pay fines. "I thought I smelled..." would still entitle "authority figures" to car searches, home raids, body cavity searches, and everything else it currently does. You won't have a "criminal" record...but you'll still have an "offense record." And that "no longer a criminal" record will still be used against you, at every opportunity.
If we were to decriminalize cannabis today, the only thing that would change is that you wouldn't "immediately" be arrested or "immediately" get a "criminal" record. Everything else would remain basically the same.
Decriminalization is little more than a scaled-down version of legalize, used by those who don't understand that they really mean to say "Repeal".
This is because it still doesn't end the problem of cannabis prohibition, but allows it to continue almost completely unchanged while giving the public the mistaken impression that anything of actual substance has been changed.
eg: If you really want to see cannabis prohibition put to an end in your lifetime, we need to REPEAL the statutes that created, expanded, and maintained it over the last century. Then it'll be over.
We've failed to do "what we say we want" for over 50 years.
It's time we just got it done, so we can move on to the next global issue which desperately needs our attention. (Hint: There are at least one or two more of those we can easily tackle next; Banking fraud would be a good "next to fix" item!)
Decriminalization is little more than a scaled-down version of legalize, used by those who don't understand that they really mean to say "Repeal".
This is because it still doesn't end the problem of cannabis prohibition, but allows it to continue almost completely unchanged while giving the public the mistaken impression that anything of actual substance has been changed.
eg: If you really want to see cannabis prohibition put to an end in your lifetime, we need to REPEAL the statutes that created, expanded, and maintained it over the last century. Then it'll be over.
We've failed to do "what we say we want" for over 50 years.
It's time we just got it done, so we can move on to the next global issue which desperately needs our attention. (Hint: There are at least one or two more of those we can easily tackle next; Banking fraud would be a good "next to fix" item!)
Decriminalize by ElectroPig von FökkenGrüüven March 27, 2015
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Decrom • Decrominate • Decomplish • Decompuzzled • Decrimizable • decroded • Decomp • decomplexification • decomplexify • Decomposure
decroditate
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Workers Decompensation
When a mental health crisis occurs as a result of the slow and substandard medical care available following a workplace injury.
Off work for more than six months, his was a clear and sadly, preventable case of Workers Decompensation.
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Detromizing
“Detromizing”- “Detromizing” is something that happens that makes you want to die.
Jacob: Someone stole my $100 out of my wallet. Isaac: Damn that’s “Detromizing”.
Jacob: Someone stole my $100 out of my wallet. Isaac: Damn that’s “Detromizing”.
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Hugo Decroix
The definition of Swag. If you look up his name in the dictionary...you won't find him, because he is too cool for a dictionary and also because his name is a proper noun. The word Swag was created to define him and soon they are going to invent Swagest for him.
Hugo Decroix by asdfnc June 13, 2013
decroded
(dec)ayed + cor(roded) = decroded. Used in Napoleon Dynamite, quite possibly the best film in the history of cinema.
"Napoleon, it looks like you don't have a job. So why don't you get out there and feed Tina?"
"Why don't you go eat a 'decroded' piece of crap?"
"Why don't you go eat a 'decroded' piece of crap?"
decroded by The Third Hess Brother January 10, 2005
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