0 the act of allowing something by law:
the legalization of drugs
She supports legalization for undocumented immigrants already in the country.
1 the process of making something legal when it was previously illegal:
He founded the group to promote the legalization of marijuana.
Local government officials could block the legalization of slot machine gambling in their communities.
Three consecutive phases of suppression, legalization and renewed suppression can be discerned.
Central to these reforms was the legalization of layoffs for 'managerial reasons'.
In the national sample, 44.5% favored legalization (16.4% definitely and 28.1% probably), 33.9% opposed legalization (20.4% definitely and 13.5% probably), and 22% were unsure.
Prevailing arguments against the legalization of an organ market are engaged seriously - and exhaustively.
The legalization problem has to do with the fact that ethical concern takes a legal form.
Rejecting the intrinsic difference view does not settle the question of the morality or legalization of active euthanasia, for consequentialist grounds must be taken into account.
