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How to use the word legalization in a Sentence?

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John is an outspoken advocate for weed legalization and has always believed we should not be criminalizing addiction, but he does not support decriminalizing all drugs including heroin, methamphetamines and other hard drugs in Pennsylvania, john believes we need to make sure we are locking up drug dealers who are pushing and profiting from hard drugs, while making sure that people get real help if they are addicted.

Joe Calvello

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Let me take issue with the anti-establishment, i never positioned myself as anti-establishment. In fact, I was the only elected official in my race, I point out. Katie McGinty never held elected office and [Joe] Sestak’s only elected office was a term, I believe, in Congress before he started running. So this idea that I was anti-establishment – I just ran on what I felt were important, common sense issues whether that was a living wage, marijuana legalization, a Black Lives Matter kind of worldview, but also a community policing.

John Fetterman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This knowledge can be used to inform strategies for implementing legalization while minimizing the potential harms.

Nora Volkow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We saw the legalization of adult-use recreational two, three, or four years down the line... but now we're hoping for this year.

Luis Merchan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s some optimism that the U.S. is going to pass the marijuana legalization bill and that will open up to more investment opportunities.

Gregory Taylor

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I agree that it's an uphill slog to see federal legalization, but what we're putting on the table is inevitability, when you get to the point when half of the country has legalized for adult-use, we have now set a stage for inevitability. And that begins to change the tone and tenor in Washington.

Steven Hawkins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's more or less a foregone conclusion that cannabis is on a path to full-scale legalization.

Karan Wadhera

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And they're entering these spaces like the campus, and they want to get involved in all of these organizations and movements. They want to fight for $ 15 minimum wage, they want to fight for universal health care. They want to push for the legalization of marijuana nationwide, but they're being forced to check their Zionism at the door -- any sense of Jewish peoplehood, they're being told to check it at the door.

Julia Jassey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Support for legal marijuana is the highest it's ever been in the US across several different demographics. The pandemic has only sparked increased appetite in the space, this widespread legalization at the state level suggests the possibility of legalization on the Federal level in the US.

Brad Neuman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Smoke a couple times a day and marijuana will knock off Carl Hart memory. That is pretty certain, and there is no question that legalization has a normalizing effect on something that used to be against the law.

Christian Hopfer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There's going to be a lot of movement in 2020, whether it leads to actual legalization in some states remains to be seen.

Chris Walsh

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It feels like [ legalization ] has to happen soon, but it might not happen how people think. You get a bill passed to allow banks to clearly serve this industry without a whole bunch of restrictions, and that could be pseudo-legalization, so, the actual move by the federal government to' legalize' marijuana or let states decide might not come for years ; but that reality might play out anyway with some other type of legislation.

Chris Walsh

Found on CNN
4 years ago

-gang-jahgricultural explosion= is a term I coined and created to show what will happen to the growth, legalization,and distribution of ganja-(marijuana) in jamaica. this is yet another way for babylon's elite domination, and an instrument of control by those who hold political offices and influence upon those who are poor. the jamaican rastaman has lost control over his spiritual herb, and the plan is to reduce him to nothingness. read what details are in this essay shown on answers.com wordpress.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The cannabis industry is currently in its Wild West phase filled with both excesses and real potential, it's threading that path that's going to be interesting, and for the most part, we think there will be a lot of companies that blow up. There will also be a few companies like TPB that can capitalize on legalization. We're gonna be on the lookout for both.

Anonymous Analytics

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Using technology, we have been able to proactively bring greater racial equity and fairness to marijuana legalization in California, i am thrilled to see other counties and states following suit by offering similar relief in their communities. It's the right thing to do.

George GascónThe DA

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Harris will have to figure out how she'll convince the (progressive) movement that she's their champion when many organizers and activists are on record criticizing her approach as attorney general on issues related to prison overcrowding, police shootings and marijuana legalization.

Waleed Shahid

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Today's aggression by protesters who disagree with my position on the legalization of recreational marijuana demonstrates the problem with political discourse today, we all must agree to have a civilized debate when disagreement occurs. My parents fled communist Eastern Europe where people with different political opinions were harassed and punished, and it has no place in America.

Congressman Andy Harris

Found on CNN
5 years ago

To this day, he tells me he can’t wait for his state to pass [legalization] laws, and that it was his goal to not need all the prescriptions he took on a daily basis, i have just witnessed too many veterans positively benefiting from it.

Rich Murphy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

As a result of the legalization of medical around the start of the war, many veterans I think felt like they could consider it as an option and began experimenting, for the most part, the results are in—and it’s very promising the manner in which [medical marijuana] can affect their lives.

Rich Murphy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm going to be very provocative. Who would drug legalization be good for? Latin America and the Caribbean, for God's sake. Because the illegality is what's killing people, it's time to seriously consider legalizing drugs.

Alicia Barcena

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Most importantly, the current situation is a significant funding resource for organized crime. That ends with legalization.

Charles Adams

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is certainly the potential for harm to the integrity of the games but that risk already exists in a wholly unregulated shadow economy that exploits gamblers with usurious interest rates and robs them of any vehicle to seek redress if they are ripped off, most importantly, the current situation is a significant funding resource for organized crime. That ends with legalization.

Charles Adams

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think the idea of focusing significant resources on interdicting or convicting people for smoking marijuana is a waste of our resources, that's different than [ legalization ]. Our policy for our Administration is still not legalization, and that is [ and ] continues to be our policy.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The only story here is that the evidence does not show marijuana or marijuana legalization are to blame for this increase in crime.

Mason Tvert

Found on CNN
6 years ago

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