The legal change needs to explicitly aim to legalize said use and include a legal way to obtain them without a medical justification.
All timeframes:
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See also:
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(and other timeframes)
@a2bb no, as stated there needs to be a legislative action taken with intent to legalize recreational use, abusing cough medication does not count