Texas House, District 56
About this race: The sitting member's recorded votes on the 2025 hemp-THC ban and the Compassionate Use Program expansion are listed below in date order, with their record-vote numbers, as the official journals print them.
Whose record this page shows. The paragraph above is about the
race, and part of it describes a different person. Everything after this line on this page is
Ashley Bean Thornton’s own record and nothing else — including, where it says so, the
finding that no record was located. Every record the paragraph above describes is
set out candidate by candidate on the
Texas House, District 56 race page.
Ashley Bean ThorntonDemocrat
No score: the record below carries no direction this site is willing to score — an abstention, a vote on a bill whose effect on legal access is genuinely arguable, or a statement that names no position. It is shown in full so you can read it and judge for yourself.
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Said2026-09-21
Her campaign site carries a page in place of a conventional issues page, headed "Let's Build the Texas We Want", which sets out a blueprint compiled from what she heard on a listening tour. Under a heading "Marijuana" it records: "We would decriminalize marijuana, and allow people to grow their own, with a limit of no more than 6 plants" and "Decriminalize marijuana and allow home grow".
This is not a statement of her own position and is not scored. The page states in her own words that it sets out what "HD 56 Constituents have been telling me" and invites readers to "see the raw input from my listening" sessions. She does say of the blueprint: "As I think about how I will advocate for or against the bills that come before me — I plan to refer to this blueprint", so it is the stated basis for her votes; but she has published no position of her own on cannabis, and recording constituent input as her view would misattribute it.
⚠️The page carries no publication date, so 2026-09-21 is the date it was read.
⚠️It is not reachable from the site's navigation crawl and was found through the site's own search index.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Constituent input published by the campaign, not a position stated by the candidate, so it is shown but carries no direction.
ashleybeanthornton.com
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Who is paying for this campaign
Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission
We could not match a Commission filer number to this name. The
Commission’s list of candidates who have appointed a campaign treasurer carried no
single row matching both the surname and the given name on the ballot for this seat, so
none was guessed at. Ashley Bean Thornton may have filed under a different form of their name.
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.
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placed beside a roll call, and we make no claim about anyone’s motive.
For what Ashley Bean Thornton 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.