Texas House, District 85
A district in the Houston suburbs. No candidate on this ballot holds Texas legislative office, so none appears in any 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call. Each was checked against the same sources.
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. One limit on that search is recorded with it.
What was checked for Dennis "Goose" Geesaman, 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/Dennis_Geesaman, 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/Dennis_Geesaman (16569 characters). It contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use. They completed a Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey — free-text answers they wrote themselves — and it raises no cannabis subject.
⚠️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 on 2026-10-05: the Texas Hemp Business Council’s published 2026 candidate questionnaire roster at texashempbusinesscouncil.com/wp-json/thbc/v1/candidate-responses and texashempbusinesscouncil.com/candidate-responses. The council is a hemp industry trade association; it put twenty questions about hemp and THC policy to 221 named candidates for the Texas Legislature and statewide office, this candidate among them, and publishes the answers it receives.
On the date checked the council’s own roster recorded this candidate’s status as "awaiting" and carried no answers from them; 30 of the 221 had answered by that date and this candidate was not one of them. The council states that answers are added as they are completed, so this records only what the roster showed on 2026-10-05.
Also searched on 2026-10-06: a campaign site of this candidate’s own was located at goose4texrep.com, and its page title names them and the office or district.
We did not read it. The host answered HTTP 403 to a request for its robots.txt, twice on the same day, 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.
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 Dennis "Goose" Geesaman
Pages read in full:
- onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=71602219 — sections on the page: Qualifications; Elections; Immigration; Education; Priorities — 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/katy-fulshear/election/q-a-meet-the-candidates-running-for-texas-house-district-85 — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-15, HTTP 200. Community Impact's candidate Q&A for the November 2026 general election in Texas House District 85, published 2026-10-09. This candidate's answers are printed. The 5 questions put to every candidate were: “Why are you running for this position?”; “What would your top priorities be if elected?”; “What are the biggest challenges facing this district?”; “What are your priorities for the future of Texas education?”; “How will you ensure your constituents can access affordable housing?”. None of the questions, and none of the answers printed on the page, contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
- communityimpact.com/katy-fulshear/election/qa-meet-the-2-republican-primary-candidates-running-for-texas-house-district-85 — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-15, HTTP 200. Community Impact's candidate Q&A for the March 2026 Republican primary in Texas House District 85, published 2026-01-30. This candidate's answers are printed. The 6 questions put to every candidate were: “Why are you running for office?”; “What are your qualifications for why you'd be a strong candidate in this role?”; “If elected, what will be your top priorities?”; “What are the biggest challenges facing this district and how do you plan to address these issues?”; “What projects are most important for the legislature to focus on for the future of Texas?”; “What do you see as the greatest challenge for Texas in the next 5 years?”. None of the questions, and none of the answers printed on the page, contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
Could not be read, so nothing is concluded from them:
- goose4texrep.com — the host’s robots.txt answered HTTP 403, which this project treats as a refusal rather than consent, so the page was never fetched
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 Lawrence Brandyburg, 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/Lawrence_Brandyburg, 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/Lawrence_Brandyburg (16523 characters). It contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use. They completed a Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey — free-text answers they wrote themselves — and it raises no cannabis subject.
⚠️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 on 2026-10-05: the Texas Hemp Business Council’s published 2026 candidate questionnaire roster at texashempbusinesscouncil.com/wp-json/thbc/v1/candidate-responses and texashempbusinesscouncil.com/candidate-responses. The council is a hemp industry trade association; it put twenty questions about hemp and THC policy to 221 named candidates for the Texas Legislature and statewide office, this candidate among them, and publishes the answers it receives.
On the date checked the council’s own roster recorded this candidate’s status as "awaiting" and carried no answers from them; 30 of the 221 had answered by that date and this candidate was not one of them. The council states that answers are added as they are completed, so this records only what the roster showed on 2026-10-05.
⚠️The account of a search that used to stand here has been withdrawn. It said which two queries had been put to a search engine and that every surviving result had been opened by hand. No record of any of that exists in this project, and when the same pair of queries was put to a candidate whose own campaign site this guide had already published a record from, nineteen results came back without that site among them; the queries, the results and the test are kept at pipeline/data/inbox/campaign-site-search-control-2026-10-12.json.
Nothing below came from that search. A campaign site of this candidate's own was found on 2026-10-06 and 4 page(s) of it were read, by following the citation that the independent candidate tracker Vote the Person publishes for them; it is listed below with what it does and does not contain.
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 Lawrence Brandyburg
Pages read in full:
- onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=71602219 — sections on the page: Qualifications; Elections; Immigration; Education; Priorities — 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.
- votetheperson.org/candidates/lawrence-brandyburg — sections on the page: Candidate; Your match; Record; Sources — the whole of the independent candidate tracker Vote the Person's page for this candidate, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. The page states the office or district we have on file, so the identification is confirmed, and it cites 3 source(s) of its own. Marijuana is one of the issues it tracks by name, and it lists Marijuana among the 41 issues on which it found no public position for this candidate. ⚠️That is a second organisation reporting an empty search, not a statement by the candidate.
- drlawrencebrandyburg.com their own site — sections on the page: 4 page(s) of this candidate's own campaign site, read in full by us on 2026-10-06 — reached from the home page's own links and from the site's sitemap where it publishes one, each fetched only after its host had been checked against robots.txt and found to permit it. The site is identified as theirs by the independent tracker Vote the Person, which names the office or district they seek and cites this domain among its sources. The site itself also names the district, which is what makes it attributable: a site that named only the name would not be published here. Not one of those pages 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. This contradicts an earlier note on this card saying no campaign site of their own could be found: a site exists and was read. What it does not contain is any cannabis or hemp content.
- communityimpact.com/katy-fulshear/election/q-a-meet-the-candidates-running-for-texas-house-district-85 — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-15, HTTP 200. Community Impact's candidate Q&A for the November 2026 general election in Texas House District 85, published 2026-10-09. This candidate's answers are printed. The 5 questions put to every candidate were: “Why are you running for this position?”; “What would your top priorities be if elected?”; “What are the biggest challenges facing this district?”; “What are your priorities for the future of Texas education?”; “How will you ensure your constituents can access affordable housing?”. None of the questions, and none of the answers printed on the page, contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
All 2 candidates on this ballot are listed.