Legalize

[Tanya Shivari]

e.g: Legalize weed, man!
To legalize means to write a statute which thereby exports a given object, or substance (expanded in recent years to also include concepts, thoughts or actions) from the tangible, real, physical universe--where it can actually be proven to exist--and imports this object or substance into the imaginary realm of statutory control, enforcement and penalty, which only exists inside a courtroom environment, or the prisons they draw their revenue from.
This can be used to make something [illegal], or to make something [legal].
This can not, however, be used to make something [free], which many people [believe] means the same thing as [legal].
It doesnt.
To be legal requires statutes which specifically limit and restrain your freedoms to those which are preordained by the [statute].

[Ernesto]

Make (something that was previously illegal) permissible by law.

[Greta]

to allow something by law: