How to Use legalize in a Sentence

legalize

verb

• The government has legalized the use of the new drug.
• They wanted to legalize gambling in their city.
• Race has often been at the heart of the movement to legalize cannabis.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• The effect of legalizing death care is not just the hostile takeover of medicine.
  — Alexander Raikin, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
• Thailand was the first country in Asia to legalize cannabis.
  — Jintamas Saksornchai, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2024
• Mexico will legalize cannabis by the end of the year with a framework.
  — Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• The bill would not have legalized the sale of the substances and would have barred any possession of the substances on school grounds.
  — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2023
• Washington was one of the first two states, along with Colorado, to legalize the use and sale of cannabis by adults in 2012.
  — Gene Johnson, ajc, 8 Apr. 2023
• There is still hope for a few states to legalize sports wagering in 2025.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
• This week, Abrams launched a campaign in Georgia with the call to legalize sports betting.
  — Essence, 16 Sep. 2022
• At the time, the state was beginning to consider how to legalize cannabis.
  — Amanda Chicago Lewis, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
• Twitter’s more lax rules come as more states legalize cannabis sales.
  — Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the production and sale of recreational cannabis.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2022
• Now, Kentucky is one of 38 states that has legalized sports betting.
  — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 29 May 2023
• His bill would legalize 2 ounces per person age 21 or more.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• The Ohio Senate passed a bill this spring that would legalize sports betting; the House is expected to take up the issue this fall.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 31 July 2021
• Since then, states across the country have been voting to legalize sports betting.
  — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• After the ban was struck down, states have been allowed to legalize sports betting and launch their own programs.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• New Jersey becomes the 18th state in the nation to legalize the sale of recreational pot to consumers 21 and older.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2022
• What’s the next step for the people who are trying to legalize marijuana in Ohio?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2021
• The decline in drinking over the past decade has come as many states have legalized marijuana.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2024
• In 2016, the state legalized open carry for permit holders; then the legislature got rid of the need for a permit.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
• Connecticut became the 19th state last year to legalize adult-use cannabis.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2022
• When the first states began to legalize cannabis, there was no such thing as social equity.
  — Amanda Chicago Lewis, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• Back in 2017, Los Angeles was among the first places in the United States to legalize weed with social equity in mind.
  — Amanda Chicago Lewis, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• Context: There's been a steady drumbeat to legalize sports betting across the country since New Jersey did it in 2018.
  — Sami Sparber, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
• The fight to legalize marijuana at the federal level has been taken — once again — to the House floor to vote on as soon as next week.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 25 Mar. 2022
• Twenty-one states have now legalized the recreational use of cannabis by adults.
  — Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Despite a record number of states legalizing cannabis in some form, the federal government still hasn’t budged.
  — Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025
• The State Legislature legalized executions by firing squad and electric chair in 2021, but it was blocked by a lower court the following year.
  — Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025