Legal in sentence

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It's now legal for medical purposes in almost half our 50 states, millions of people can purchase their marijuana, their medicine, in government- licensed dispensaries, and over half my fellow citizens now say it's time to legally regulate and tax marijuana more or less like alcohol.

I'll tell you something else I learned, that the reason some drugs are legal and others not has almost nothing to do with science or health or the relative risk of drugs, and almost everything to do with who uses and who is perceived to use particular drugs.

In the late 19th century, when most of the drugs that are now illegal were legal, the principal consumers of opiates in my country and others were middle-aged white women, using them to alleviate aches and pains when few other analgesics were available.

The first is the policy challenge of designing and implementing alternatives to ineffective prohibitionist policies, even as we need to get better at regulating and living with the drugs that are now legal.

That action and the subsequent legal and political battle led to a landmark First Amendment decision that prevented the government from demanding patriotism be mandatory.

They told her she couldn't love her vagina in high school, that it was not a legal thing, that it was not a moral thing, that it was not a good thing.

Villages that agree to implement this project, they organize a legal society where the general body consists of all members who elect a group of men and women who implement the project and, later on, who look after the operation and maintenance.

In 1998, after having been swept up into an improbable romance, I was then swept up into the eye of a political, legal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before.

The Oxford Internet Institute focuses not on the technology, but on the social, economic, legal and ethical issues of the Internet.

It's a legal thing.

They're all legal things.

The great apes that you'll see behind me, they too are legal things.

Now, I can do that to a legal thing.

They're legal things.

So for centuries, there's been a great legal wall that separates legal things from legal persons.

On one hand, legal things are invisible to judges.

They don't have any legal rights.

They don't have the capacity for legal rights.

On the other side of that legal wall are the legal persons.

Legal persons are very visible to judges.

Right now, all nonhuman animals are legal things.

All human beings are legal persons.

But being human and being a legal person has never been, and is not today, synonymous with a legal person.

Humans and legal persons are not synonymous.

On the one side, there have been many human beings over the centuries who have been legal things.

Slaves were legal things.

Women, children, were sometimes legal things.

Indeed, a great deal of civil rights struggle over the last centuries has been to punch a hole through that wall and begin to feed these human things through the wall and have them become legal persons.

Now, on the other side are legal persons, but they've never only been limited to human beings.

There are, for example, there are many legal persons who are not even alive.

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