Legalization

Legalization is the act of making something that is usually considered illegal to be legal in the eyes of a country's governing laws.

Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories
In Smurf society in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, legalization of smurfnip has been difficult due to the nature of the recreational drug having the psychoactive effect of producing hallucinations in its users -- not that smurfnip is entirely illegal in Smurf society, just rather that its use of it is frowned upon by its governing leaders. Once a strain of smurfnip has been developed that no longer produced hallucinations, legalization of smurfnip eventually followed, marking a victory for the recreational users of the drug.

Same-sex marital unions among Smurfs was not made legal until several centuries after Empath's final return from Psychelia, although the destruction of the Smurf Village by an earthquake would soon follow afterward, seen in Nehemiah Smurf's eyes as God's judgment upon their own people for such.