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He put his effort into legalizing people already here—nearly three million, the largest such legalization in U.S. history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

However, if those states end up legalizing sports betting, the company said, it will stop offering sports-prediction markets and offer its traditional sports-betting platform instead.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

Accordingly, he called for legalizing the practice so it could be “brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

The small South American country has a long history of passing socially liberal laws, legalizing marijuana, same-sex marriage and abortion long before most others.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

And indeed, those early- legalizing states saw crime begin to fall earlier than the other forty-five states and the District of Columbia.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt