Federal Cannabis Regulation
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2024-05-01 — Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act: cross-connection with drug-scheduling-controlled-substances: The bill pairs removal of cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act with a federal commercial regulatory and excise-tax framework, linking descheduling to regulation of the resulting legal market rather than to medical approval or insurance coverage. (novelty: 3)
- 2022-07-21 — Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act: cross-connection with drug-scheduling-controlled-substances: The bill paired removal of cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act with a federal framework for commercial sales, linking scheduling policy to cannabis market regulation; it stalled after committee referral in the 117th Congress. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-04-17 — PREPARE Act of 2025: 2025 — PREPARE Act of 2025 (House bill, referred to committees) would direct the Justice Department to establish a commission studying how the federal government could regulate adult-use cannabis after prohibition ends; a study-only step with no scheduling or legalization effect, mirroring the earlier Senate-side PREPARE Act of 2022. (novelty: 2)