Wouldn't it be better if you decriminalised them and then tried to sort them out'.

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Russia decriminalised homosexuality in 1993 and officially removed it from a list of psychiatric disorders in 1999.

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Most areas of the UK have now decriminalised parking or changed the law to make it possible.

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Now it has been decriminalised the enforcement companies seem to concentrate on easy targets and our streets remain congested.

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"We are looking at a society that is only just coming to terms with suicide, it was only decriminalised in 1964, " Ms Nelson said.

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Suicide was decriminalised in the Republic of Ireland in 1993.

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In the Republic, suicide was decriminalised in 1993.

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Mr Moynihan said parliament also recognised in the debate that having decriminalised it, it could then be that a superior could direct a junior person to participate in treatment to which they had a well-recognised conscientious objection.

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