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Also known as legalisation, legalizing, legalising

Legalization is the process of removing a legal prohibition against something which is currently not legal.

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Legalization is the process of removing a legal prohibition against something which is currently not legal.

Legalization is a process often applied to what are regarded, by those working towards legalization, as victimless crimes, of which one example is the consumption of illegal drugs (see drug legalization).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “legalization” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.