US House, District 8
About this race: A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering all of Waller County, most of Montgomery County, part of south-east Walker County and part of west Harris County. No cannabis or hemp record was found for any candidate on this ballot, in Congress or in the Texas Legislature. Each was checked against the sources listed on their pages.
Which map this is. This seat is drawn on the
120th Congress map, the one on the 3 November ballot. Measured by area — not by
population — 61% of it was inside district 8 on the
119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026; the rest came from district 10 (32%), district 2 (3.3%), district 17 (1.8%) and district 7 (1.3%). Your own district may have changed number without your address changing.
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Laura JonesDemocrat
100/100
support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100
thin — one or two records produced this number · 1 of 1 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.
- 2020-02-16 questionnaire — Wrote in a candidate survey that it is important to legalize marijuana and grow hemp, arguing that cultivation could sustain small rural Texas towns, counted as +2 at weight 0.6
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Questionnaire2020-02-16
Answered the Texas Marijuana Policy Voter Guide candidate survey as a candidate in the Democratic primary for the same seat, U.S. House District 8, and wrote in the comments box, in full: "I think it is important that we legalize marijuana and grow hemp. Texas has plenty of land to grow this product. Small, rural Texas towns are in dire need of Industry and the growth of marijuana can help save these towns." The guide states that "Answers provided have been unedited."
It was compiled, published and funded by Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, and says Texas NORML originated the guide in 2012.
⚠️The response itself carries no date. The guide is the 2020 Primary Election Edition for an election day of 2020-03-03; the date recorded here is the Last-Modified date the publisher's own server returns for the guide file (Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:52:13 GMT), which is the earliest date on which this answer is provably on the public record, not the date she gave it.
⚠️The four tick-box answers beside her name did not survive text extraction and are not reported here; a secondary account of this guide states that she answered all four in favour, and that account is not relied on. Only the comment above, which the guide prints as her unedited words, is recorded.
⚠️Identity. The guide gives her campaign address as laurajonesforcongress@gmail.com in the District 8 Democratic primary; the 2026 Democratic nominee for the same district is the same Laura Jones, who also sought the seat in 2020, 2022 and 2024.
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Who is paying for this campaign
Campaign finance — Federal Election Commission
Commission candidate H0TX08145, filed as
“JONES, LAURA”, principal committee C00721597
(LAURA JONES FOR CONGRESS).
fec.gov
Everything below covers the reporting period that ended
2026-06-30, as filed with the Commission. These figures lag the
filing deadlines: money raised after that date does not appear until the next report is due,
so a recent contribution is not missing, it is not yet reportable.
What we could and could not put a label on
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unclassified
$11,745
not matched by any of our patterns · figures cover through 2026-06-30
Fraction classified: 0%. We examined
$11,745 — the 4 largest employer groupings
($1,570) and 4 committee contributions
($10,175) the Commission shows for this committee — and
matched $0 of it to one of our own patterns.
$11,745 is listed above as unclassified.
What that figure is not. $11,745 is what we examined,
not everything this campaign raised: the Commission returns the largest employer groupings
rather than every contribution, and contributions too small to be itemised carry no
employer at all. Read the classified fraction as a share of what we looked at.
Any grouping of contributors into an industry is weedvoter’s own classification, applied to employer and committee names exactly as filed. The Commission publishes employers and committees; it never publishes industries. OpenSecrets discontinued its public interface in April 2025, so nothing here is an OpenSecrets classification.
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 Laura Jones 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.