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Verb(1) make legal(2) legalize

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(1) Tsai restated yesterday that the current aim of the small three links is only to decriminalize illegal trading that already exists in the Taiwan Strait.(2) Also in Spain, the Catalan Parliament unanimously approved a resolution to decriminalize the use of medical marijuana.(3) There are three options available to alleviate this problem, keeping it a criminal offence, decriminalize it and legalize it.(4) We will not legalize or decriminalize any drugs, nor do we envisage a time when this would be appropriate.(5) a battle to decriminalize cannabis(6) a battle to decriminalize drugs(7) They want to decriminalize sex work, which is something quite different from legalizing it, as we learned with marijuana.(8) After more than a year of internal debate, the Canadian government introduced legislation this week to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana but set stricter penalties for trafficking of the drug.(9) He stressed that the he would not be rushed into any quick decisions on legalisation or decriminalisation of the drug and cautioned that there was no easy way forward.(10) It has decriminalized medical marijuana, legalized assisted suicide and earlier this year, began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the Portland area.(11) Belgium will join the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Italy in officially decriminalizing personal possession of cannabis, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced at a press conference last Friday.(12) What is clear from this brief examination is that the decision to criminalise or decriminalise particular activities, whether by judicial decision or legislation, is far from straightforward.(13) He does not, so far as we know, support decriminalization of drugs.(14) I'm not saying legalise it, just decriminalise it in certain areas.(15) It is illegal but it is decriminalised which means that there are places that it can be consumed.(16) Meanwhile, the South African Law Commission published a discussion document in 2002 calling for alterations to the Sexual Offences Act, including the possibility of legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution.