The term "drug" here is used as a legal designation.

What happens to us, when this difference is reduced to a mere whim, or a matter of legal designation?

The legal designation of noxious weed for a plant species can use these four criteria:

Brownfield status is a legal designation which places restrictions, conditions or incentives on redevelopment.

RTHL is a legal designation and the highest honor the state can bestow on a historic structure.

"That is your official, legal designation?"

The legal designation was updated to reflect the new construction of Interstate 5.

The legal designation of white racial status actually worked against Mexican American civil rights in law suits claiming racial discrimination.

The Pequots' bid sought to have the land placed in a Federal trust, a legal designation that would have given the tribe sovereign control.