# legalStatus

The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [DrugLegalStatus](https://schema.org.ai/DrugLegalStatus) | The legal availability status of a medical drug. |
| [MedicalEnumeration](https://schema.org.ai/MedicalEnumeration) | Enumerations related to health and the practice of medicine: A concept that is used to attribute a quality to another concept, as a qualifier, a collection of items or a listing of all of the elements of a set in medicine practice. |
| [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | Data type: Text. |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [DietarySupplement](https://schema.org.ai/DietarySupplement) | A product taken by mouth that contains a dietary ingredient intended to supplement the diet. Dietary ingredients may include vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and substances such as enzymes, organ tissues, glandulars and metabolites. |
| [Drug](https://schema.org.ai/Drug) | A chemical or biologic substance, used as a medical therapy, that has a physiological effect on an organism. Here the term drug is used interchangeably with the term medicine although clinical knowledge makes a clear difference between them. |
| [MedicalEntity](https://schema.org.ai/MedicalEntity) | The most generic type of entity related to health and the practice of medicine. |

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