PREPARE Act of 2025

Key Points

• Creates a federal commission to map out how the U.S. could regulate cannabis if federal prohibition ends.
• The commission must study topics like product safety labels, youth protections, impaired driving, and how cannabis businesses can use banks.
• It also must look at harms from past cannabis arrests—especially for minority, low-income, and veteran communities—and suggest ways to fix them.
• The commission must ask for public input, hold a witness hearing (including people previously incarcerated for non-violent cannabis offenses), and post testimony online.
• The commission must post initial recommendations within 120 days and a final report within 1 year; it cannot make rules on its own.