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legalize

 verb
     
le‧gal‧ize also legalise British English [transitive]
to make something legal so that people are allowed to do it [≠ criminalize]:
Abortion was legalized in the 1960s.
—legalization noun [uncountable]
a campaign calling for the legalization of certain drugs
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