Definition of "legalization" []

• The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization. (noun)

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• "These estimates also show that marijuana legalization is a relatively modest piece of the overall impact."
• "Marijuana legalization is a much a civil rights issue as blacks and women having the right to vote, as women having equal rights to men, as gay people having the right to marry each other."
• "Marijuana legalization is a lot more popular than Republicans right now."