(1) They call the arrests racially disproportionate and too prevalent in a city where possessing small amounts of pot was partly decriminalized almost 40 years ago.
(2) Thirty-four U.S. jurisdictions have fully implemented the major provisions of the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act, calling for the decriminalization of public drunkenness.
(3) Illegal drug programs, decriminalization and research on cultural obstacles were within the broad range of issues addressed under services and care.
(4) Decriminalization of the use and the possession of the drug could help law enforcement officers, the courts, and the user.
(5) These studies also reveal the advantages offered by a system of decriminalized or legalized prostitution.
(6) Findings suggest that as a consequence of decriminalization, the psychological adjustment of homosexual men will increase and sexually transmitted diseases and public solicitation will decrease.
(7) Alongside the immediate arrest of Darren Wilson, we must demand the demilitarization of law enforcement as well as the decriminalization of the black body.
(8) The global online campaigning organisation Avaaz presented a petition to the Paraguayan congress with half a million signatures calling for the decriminalization of abortion for women under 15 years of age.
(9) This progressive feminist method aims to decriminalize prostituted women without legitimizing the men who buy them.
(10) The contemporary debate over decriminalization mimics in almost every respect a debate that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s.
(11) However, a more scientifically adequate information base, as well as political courage, is required before those seeking decriminalization are likely to succeed.
(12) Updated at 5.04pm GMT 4.55pm GMT The parliament voted 310-54 to decriminalize the count under which Yulia Tymoshenko was imprisoned, the Associated Press reports, “meaning that she is no longer guilty of a criminal offense”: “Free Yulia!
(13) Additionally, decriminalization reportedly eased somewhat the problems of the homosexual community and allowed the police to devote more time to the investigation of what generally are regarded as more serious criminal offenses.
(14) On the other hand, the so-called "decriminalization" measures did result in substantial savings in the criminal justice system.
(15) Despite the dire predictions of many, the responses indicate that, among other things, decriminalization has had no effect on the involvement of homosexuals with minors, the use of force by homosexuals, or the amount of private homosexual behavior.
(16) A majority of Americans now live in states where marijuana has either been legalized or significantly decriminalized in recent years.
(17) The article discusses the Dutch criminal code of 1886, the criminalization of homosexual contacts involving minors in 1911, the criminalization of male homosexuality from 1941 to 1945, and the progressive relaxation of the law since World War II, resulting in the decriminalization in 1971 of homosexual contacts involving minors and the draft in 1981 for a bill that would prohibit discrimination against homosexuals.
(18) Illinois is among of a growing list of states experimenting with decriminalizing marijuana.
(19) Holder deserves credit for his self-critique of government racism and for pushing reforms, notably in trying to restore felons’ voting rights , to work with Congress on voter ID sanity , to oppose data-driven sentencing , to reduce sentences for low-level drug offenders , to decriminalize HIV exposure , to ease up on legal pot (maybe), and to direct his Department of Justice to investigate the Ferguson police shooting – an example his civil rights department will pick up in the Walmart shooting and, perhaps, beyond.
(20) As NORML's Erik Altieri told me this week, the only way local growers and sellers who act in full compliance with their state's laws can be confident they won't face federal charges is if Congress passes HR 499, which would decriminalize marijuana at a federal level.
Legitimate
Definition:
(a.) Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
(a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
(a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
(a.) Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
(a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
(v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
(2) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
(3) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(4) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(5) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(6) Not exactly – rather, it had become impossible to distinguish between people who were legitimately Googling for information, and people who were trying to take a photo.
(7) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(8) The purpose of this investigation was to calculate the paternity probabilities for a sample of legitimate families with a true father compared with those obtained in some cases of non-excluded men chosen randomly from the population as the accused fathers for the same mother-child pairs.
(9) Statutes in all countries in the region provide that a man must support his legitimate and illegitimate children; there are, however, weaknesses in the laws on the books.
(10) At the same time, sexuality has become a legitimate concern for health professionals.
(11) Few Malians take Campaoré as a legitimate interlocutor, and no one believes that he has the country's interests at heart.
(12) The probability that the initial situation is correct--the proband and the cohabitant's six children are all legitimate-is "practically refuted": W = 0.03%.
(13) But Zhang described $9m of that as legitimate profit from an iron-ore deal, adding: "There are plenty of reasons to argue against the rest of the amount."
(14) However according to the authors' experience physical tiredness can legitimately be suspected to have produced this aggravation in 47.06 % of cases of a secondarily aggravated hepatitis.
(15) I think rightly, people have been concerned about whether Syria will follow through on the commitments that have been laid forth, and I think there are legitimate concerns as to how technically we are going to be getting those chemical weapons out while there is still fighting going on.
(16) The only question I can legitimately ask is: why is this happening?
(17) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.
(18) But I want to be very clear that our goal is to construct a legitimate legal framework for Guantánamo detainees – not to avoid one.
(19) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
(20) Your writers have defended the extraordinary introduction of an export block to halt their legitimate purchase on the basis of their artistic value, yet you will be storing them in a maritime museum.