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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.
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!)

Detrimental 

Detrimental is an adjective that means harmful or tending to cause harm. It can also be used to mean prejudicial, disadvantageous or counterproductive.
Most people realise that smoking is detrimental to your health.
Detrimental by AKACroatalin August 1, 2015

friends with detriments 

The opposite of friends with benefits. A close friend who relies on you emotionally but there is no physical intimacy Involved. See also: HMNR.
I've known Leila for three years. She calls me up to talk whenever she has a fight with one of the losers she happens to be seeing. I like her a lot but we are totally just friends with detriments.
friends with detriments by aegiswings December 16, 2008

Decriminalization 

The sad sorry term that keeps the fuzz in power.
Weed has been under decriminalization in 12 states but you'll probably just get busted like everyone else.
Decriminalization by Tarzan420 March 3, 2009
Defrim means entertainment. He is someone who comes in your life and definitely leaves his mark. You’ll never forget someone like Defrim. He is handsome, smart and creative. If you have a person like him in your life, you’re blessed.
I love him, Defrim is magical.
Defrim by Rosestar123 July 14, 2019

detriment 

A result of harm or damage. A negative effect.
He was elected to the detriment of every burrough in New York.. She thought that her brains were a detriment to her appeal.
detriment by byline November 13, 2013
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