No source of this candidate’s own is on this card. Everything below was published by someone else. So the absence of a cannabis position here is weaker evidence than it looks: it may mean only that this candidate has not published a platform anywhere we have found, or has published one somewhere we are not permitted to read.
No record compiled yet. Nothing on cannabis — no vote, bill, statement or endorsement — was found in any source we could read. 2 limits on that search are recorded with it.
What was checked for David Flores, and the limits on it
Checked on 2026-09-18: the member-level rolls of every 2025 cannabis and hemp record vote in the official Texas House and Senate Journals — SB 3 and HB 46 in the regular session, SB 5 in the first called session and SB 6 in the second — including every Yea, Nay, present-not-voting, absent and statement-of-vote list, where this name does not appear because they hold no Texas legislative office; the author, joint-author, coauthor and sponsor tables of every cannabis, hemp, THC and Compassionate Use bill filed in the 87th, 88th and 89th Legislatures and the 2025 called sessions, at the Legislature's own bill-lookup service; and a press sweep including the Spectrum News report on the March 2026 Austin candidate forum on THC policy, which quotes six candidates by name and does not include them.
Also checked, and read in full on 2026-09-18: this candidate's Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/David_Flores, including any Candidate Connection survey answers published there, which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC or CBD.
Their Ballotpedia profile was read in full on 2026-09-20 at ballotpedia.org/David_Flores (15154 characters). It contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use. When we re-read their Ballotpedia profile on 2026-10-15, it recorded that they had not completed Ballotpedia’s 2026 Candidate Connection survey. It was not read, and we were not entitled to read it: that host's robots.txt asks automated tools not to read the site, and this guide honours that.
The claim is withdrawn. The address was located and its page title names them and the office or district, which is recorded below as a page we may not open — nothing is concluded from its contents either way. The site publishes a sitemap listing 10 page(s), of which 9 were read, and none of them displays any mention of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD or Compassionate Use.
⚠️This card does not tell you whether this candidate held a seat in an earlier Legislature, but the question is now narrower. Read on 2026-10-15, from each chamber’s own journal: the roll of members-elect that the Texas House Journal prints, district by district, on the first day of every regular session from the 75th Legislature (1997) through the 89th (2025), and every senator the Texas Senate Journal names with a district on the first day of every regular session from the 76th (1999) through the 89th.
For the 89th those are journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/89r/pdf/89RDAY01FINAL.PDF and journals.senate.texas.gov/SJRNL/89R/HTML/89RSJ01-14-F.HTM and every journal read is listed on this site’s corrections page. No one by this candidate’s name appears in any of them. That is narrower than a negative answer. Those rolls name the members seated as each session opened, and in most years the Senate’s names the senators who were not up for election by surname alone, so a member who sat only in earlier sessions, who arrived at a special election and was never named in full on a later first day, or who served under another name would not be found this way.
If this candidate is one of those, there may be a cannabis voting record this site is missing. Read on 2026-10-17, to settle the one entry in those rolls that shares this candidate’s surname: the Senate’s first-day rolls of the 86th Legislature (2019), journals.senate.texas.gov/SJRNL/86R/HTML/86RSJ01-08-F.HTM , and the 89th (2025), journals.senate.texas.gov/SJRNL/89R/HTML/89RSJ01-14-F.HTM , each answer to one senator printed as "Flores" alone, with no forename and no district.
The Texas Senate’s own page for that senator, senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=24 , names him in full as Pete Flores, the senator for District 24, and records his Senate service as 2018 to 2021 and 2023 to the present, after a special election in 2018; the Senate’s seniority list, senate.texas.gov/seniority.php , lists one Flores, sworn in in October 2018 and again in January 2023; the Secretary of State’s official results for the special runoff election of September 18, 2018 in Senate District 19, elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist332_state.htm , name the winner in full as Peter P.
(Pete) Flores; and the Senate Journal names him in full as the senator for District 24 on the first day of the 88th Legislature, journals.senate.texas.gov/SJRNL/88R/HTML/88RSJ01-10-F.HTM . Pete Flores is not this candidate’s name, so that roll entry does not name this candidate.
Also searched on 2026-10-06: a campaign site of this candidate’s own was located at david4texas.com, and its page title names them and the office or district.
We did not read it. The host publishes a robots.txt asking automated tools not to read the site, and this project’s sweeps treat anything other than a readable robots.txt, or a plain 404 saying none exists, as a refusal. Nothing is therefore reported about what that site does or does not say: the absence of a cannabis position on this card is an absence of evidence we were allowed to gather, and not a finding.
⚠️And because nothing was read, we have not confirmed that this site belongs to this David Flores rather than to another person of that common name.
This card has been corrected. What earlier versions of it said, and what was wrong with them, is published in the corrections log.
No score: this candidate has no recorded vote or bill authorship on a cannabis measure. Silence is not a position, so nothing is inferred from it.
Campaign sites and voter guides checked for David Flores
Pages read in full:
- onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=71560922 — sections on the page: The League of Women Voters’ VOTE411 voter guide page for this seat, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It lists 2 candidates, the same field as the November 2026 ballot, this candidate among them as David Flores (Rep). The page prints no election date and no date for any answer. The questions were: What are the two most pressing issues unique to your district, and what specific, measurable actions would you take to address them during your term? / Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the nation. What steps would you take as a state representative to ensure access to affordable healthcare, including mental health services, for residents who are currently uninsured or underserved in your district? / What training, experience, and characteristics qualify you for this position? / What measures would you support to ensure adequate state funding for public schools and accountability for taxpayer funds used in voucher or education savings account programs? Not one asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. The candidate answered 4 of 4 questions in free text of their own, and no answer under their name contains, on a word boundary, cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, hemp-derived, THC, thc-a, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin, Compassionate Use, SB 3, Senate Bill 3 or HB 46.
Could not be read, so nothing is concluded from them:
- david4texas.com — the site’s robots.txt asks automated tools not to read it, so the page was never fetched