No record compiled yet. Nothing on cannabis — no vote, bill, statement or endorsement — was found in any source we could read. One limit on that search is recorded with it.
What was checked for Lauren B. Peña, and the limits on it
Checked on 2026-09-18. Her live campaign site is built to render in a browser and returns no text to our tooling, so we read the Internet Archive's captures of it instead, which are plain HTML. The platform page captured on 2026-05-13 lists five issue areas — government waste, energy costs, Texas families, human trafficking and government accountability — and cannabis is not among them, nor is any drug-policy item. An earlier policy page captured on 2025-08-30 lists ten items and cannabis is not among those either.
Her archived biography and home pages contain no mention of cannabis, marijuana, THC or hemp, and no drug-policy sub-page exists among the archived issue pages. Her iVoterGuide profile was read; that questionnaire asks no drug-policy question. She did complete a Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey in 2025, and that survey — previously recorded here as unread — has now been read in full; her answers are set out on her profile and none of them mentions cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC or CBD.
We also checked Austin Public Safety Commission records for the period of her appointment, which began in March 2023, after Austin's 2022 marijuana ballot measure; no meeting record naming her on a cannabis item was found, and that commission issues recommendations rather than roll calls. She has held no Texas legislative office.
⚠️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.
Also checked, and read in full on 2026-10-05: this candidate’s Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Lauren_Peña, including their Candidate Connection survey answers, which are published in full on that page. Neither the profile nor the survey answers contain cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use. When we re-checked on 2026-10-20, that site’s robots.txt asked our crawler by name not to read it, and we cannot show it permitted us when those checks were made, so that claim is withdrawn and the finding is not relied on here.
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 Lauren B. Peña
Pages read in full:
- onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=6437433 — sections on the page: Qualifications; Healthcare; Affordability; Immigration; Checks and Balances — the question set the local League of Women Voters chapter wrote for this race, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. Not one of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. The candidate answered, in free text of their own, and no answer of theirs 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, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3, HB 1325 or HB 46.
- communityimpact.com/central-austin/election/q-a-meet-the-candidates-in-the-us-house-district-37-ahead-of-nov-3-election — sections on the page: A Community Impact candidate Q&A for this race, published 2026-08-31, printing the candidate’s own answers to the paper’s questions, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). None of the paper’s questions asks about cannabis, hemp or THC, and no answer of theirs contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.
- austinvotersguide.org/LWVAA-VG-EN.pdf — sections on the page: The League of Women Voters of the Austin Area’s printed Voters Guide for the 2026-11-03 election (a PDF the publisher’s server dates 2026-10-15), which prints the candidate’s own answers to the League’s questions for this race, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). None of the League’s questions asks about cannabis, hemp or THC, and no answer of theirs contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.
- thedailytexan.com/2026/09/24/republican-ut-district-congressional-nominee-speaks-on-student-issues — sections on the page: A Daily Texan (University of Texas student newspaper) interview article on the candidate, published 2026-09-24, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It quotes or paraphrases the candidate and contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.