Texas House, District 98
About this race: A Dallas-Fort Worth area district. No candidate on this ballot holds Texas legislative office, so none appears in a 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call. What each candidate has said or answered is listed below in date order, each with its own source.
Armin MizaniRepublican
0/100
support for legal access — bottom band, 0 to 33
thin — one or two records produced this number · 1 of 2 records scored
How this score is worked out
Seven kinds of act move this number, and they do not count equally. A recorded vote
counts 3, and so does authoring a bill or signing an executive action; signing on to
somebody else’s bill counts 2. A statement or a questionnaire answer counts 2 as
well, and an organisational endorsement counts 1. A vote takes its direction from the
bill, whose effect is set out in advance; the rest take it from our reading of what was
said, and each one below shows that reading and the reason for it. Acts shown with no
number were examined and deliberately left out of the arithmetic, with a reason given.
- 2026-02-16 questionnaire — Answered that marijuana can be a gateway to more damaging drugs and that the Legislature should approach hemp and marijuana policy with caution and strong oversight, counted as -2 at weight 2
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Questionnaire2026-02-03
Answered the Dallas Morning News candidate questionnaire in its 2026 voter guide. The paper asked every candidate in the race: "How do you think the president’s executive order to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug will affect THC regulation in Texas?" The answer given was: "The federal reclassification of marijuana shouldn’t override Texas law. THC can impact health and safety, especially for youth, and Texas must retain control to enforce age limits, prevent impaired driving, and protect communities.
State decisions, not federal mandates, should guide regulation."
This answer is shown but not scored: the question asks what the candidate expects to happen, and this reply describes an expectation without stating a position of their own on lawful access.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Argued that federal reclassification should not override Texas law and that the state should retain control over age limits and impaired driving. That is a view about which government decides, not a stated position on lawful access.
dallasnews.com, dallasnews.com
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Questionnaire2026-02-16
Answered the Fort Worth Report candidate questionnaire question "What is your stance on banning or regulating THC products?", published 2026-02-16: "I believe marijuana can be a gateway to other, more serious and damaging drugs. In my opinion, the Legislature should approach hemp and marijuana policy with caution, strong oversight, and a focus on public safety."
fortworthreport.org
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Who is paying for this campaign
Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission
Texas Ethics Commission filer 80883, filed as
“Mizani, Armin”, treasurer appointment for State Representative, District 98, dated 2025-07-08.
Why there are no figures and no industry breakdown here.
Texas does not require a candidate to report a contributor’s employer or occupation —
the Commission’s own 2026 guide asks for the amount, the contributor’s name and
address, and the date, and that is all. So there is nothing in these filings to group into
industries, and we have built no such grouping rather than imply one. Separately, the
Commission’s bulk filing archive tells automated readers to stay out of it, and we
honour that, so we have read no individual Texas contribution record. Treat the itemised
question as unchecked by us, not as checked and found empty.
Read this filer’s own reports at
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“Contributions”, then Search By “Filer ID” and enter
80883. The Commission’s search posts its results, so there
is no direct link to one filer’s page; the number above is what makes it one step
instead of a hunt.
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Money received is not a position. Everything on this card is money that changed
hands. It is not evidence that any contribution influenced any decision, nothing on it is
placed beside a roll call, and we make no claim about anyone’s motive.
For what Armin Mizani has actually done about cannabis, read the record above on this
page — the roll calls, the bills that carry their name, and the date of each one,
every entry linked to the document it came from. That is the part of this page built to be
judged, and it is the part the score is calculated from. No contribution on this card moves
that score by a cent.