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Neill Snider Libertarian

Commissioner of the General Land Office

About this race: The incumbent, Dawn Buckingham, served in the Texas Senate before taking this office; her Senate votes for the 2019 bill creating the state’s hemp programme and for two Compassionate-Use expansions are listed on the race page. Benjamin Flores has published a position on the 2026 hemp restrictions on his campaign site. No record was found for Neill Snider.

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 Neill Snider’s own record and nothing else — including, where it says so, the finding that no record was located. No cannabis record is listed on this page for Neill Snider, so where the paragraph above points at records, it is pointed at the race page and not at this one. Every record the paragraph above describes is set out candidate by candidate on the Commissioner of the General Land Office race page.

Neill SniderLibertarian

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 Neill Snider, and the limits on it

Checked on 2026-09-18: searches for any cannabis, marijuana, THC or hemp statement returned nothing, and no campaign policy page could be located for him. He holds no Texas legislative office, so there is no roll call or bill authorship to search. The Libertarian Party platform addresses cannabis, but a party document is not an act by this candidate.

Also checked, and read in full on 2026-09-18: this candidate's Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Neill_Snider, including any Candidate Connection survey answers published there, which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC or CBD.

Re-read independently on 2026-09-20: his San Antonio Report candidate profile and the Community Impact question-and-answer with the land commissioner candidates, which carries his own answers. None of these contains the word cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC or CBD.

Their Ballotpedia profile was read in full on 2026-09-20 at ballotpedia.org/Neill_Snider (11561 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 still carried no Candidate Connection survey.

⚠️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 2026-10-06: this candidate’s own campaign site at www.voteneillsnider.com — 5 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 7,672 characters of text in all. The site is headed "Vote Neill Snider" and names the General Land Office. The extracted text of those pages contains no occurrence, on a word boundary, of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, Compassionate Use, delta-8, delta-9, dispensary, decriminalize, cannabinoid or psilocybin.

Re-read on 2026-10-16: his campaign site at www.voteneillsnider.com — every page its home page links to (Home, Additional, Get Involved, Donate), each HTTP 200 and robots-checked first; it publishes no sitemap. None contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin or Compassionate Use.

Re-read on 2026-10-17: his campaign site voteneillsnider.com, all 5 pages its home page links reach (home, Additional, Get Involved and Donate; it publishes no sitemap), every page HTTP 200, each fetched only after its robots.txt allowed that exact path, and scanned on word boundaries in both its visible text and its page source for cannabis, cannabinoid, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, Compassionate Use or decriminalisation.

None of those words appears, and the site carries no dated posts.

This card has been corrected. What an earlier version of it said, and what was wrong with it, 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 Neill Snider

Pages read in full:

  • onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=25559867 — sections on the page: Qualifications; Disaster Recovery; Veterans; Flood Plain Management; Education Funding — 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-get-to-know-the-candidates-running-for-texas-land-commissioner — sections on the page: a questionnaire published 2026-09-11 recording that he did not respond before press time to any of its five questions
  • www.voteneillsnider.com their own site — sections on the page: the whole of this candidate's own campaign site as this guide read it — 5 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 7,672 characters of text in all. This row was built on 2026-10-12 out of the sentence above it in this card's own search log, which named the address and said it had been read while the list beside it did not. It records no reading that the log had not already published.
  • www.texastribune.org/2026/09/18/texas-land-commissioner-glo-2026-buckingham — sections on the page: The Texas Tribune's guide to the 2026 land commissioner race, published 2026-09-18 and read in full by us on 2026-10-16 (HTTP 200). It names this candidate. No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin or Compassionate Use appears anywhere on the page.

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

Texas Ethics Commission filer 58885, filed as “Snider, Neill”, treasurer appointment for Land Commissioner, dated 2025-11-20.

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 the Texas Ethics Commission (ethics.state.tx.us) → — choose Transaction Type “Contributions”, then Search By “Filer ID” and enter 58885. 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.

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 Neill Snider 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.