Sentence examples for legalization proposal from inspiring English sources

If the marijuana legalization proposal becomes a law, Uruguay will be the first country to legalize the cannabis commercialization, a move other countries will no doubt watch and maybe follow.

Angry resistance from Republicans defeated a legalization proposal by President George W. Bush.

"Who cares about the UN convention?" said Sebastián Sabini, one of the lawmakers working on the legalization proposal.

Senator Phil Gramm, a Texas Republican whom Mr. Bush usually counts as one of his biggest backers, calls the legalization proposal "very bad policy," saying "it rewards lawlessness".

For now, at least, they mostly seem to be afraid of change: he said a kilogram of marijuana (2.2 pounds) now costs about $470 in Uruguay, up from around $375 before the legalization proposal was announced.

In the specific case of Uruguay, there are several reasons why the U.S. would be unlikely to get involved in trying to keep the legalization proposal from becoming law.

In fact, in every single state legislature where legalization was introduced this year, legalization proposals failed.

Legalization proposals in California to tax by dollar price all failed to make the 2014 ballot.

The current wave of marijuana legalization proposals taxes at wholesale by weight -- grams, ounces or pounds.

The House GOP is so allergic to any measure that looks like amnesty that, last week, it shelved one of the mildest of all legalization proposals: a bill that would have offered a path to citizenship for migrants who entered the country as children if they serve in the U.S. armed forces.

The official, Alejandro Mayorkas, director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, said his agency's response to the disaster showed that it could handle a much larger immigrant legalization program like the proposal known as the Dream Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants.