Texas Senate, District 4
North Harris County and Montgomery County. Brett Ligon won the special election for this seat on 2 May 2026 and currently sits in the Texas Senate, serving out the unexpired term; the November election is for the full term. He took office after the 2025 sessions had ended, so he appears in no 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call and the Legislature has not met since. His record here is from his years as Montgomery County District Attorney. Ron Angeletti holds no legislative office.
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.
- 2020-03-04 executive action — Restated a commitment to continue prosecuting marijuana cases when testing capacity had led other Texas prosecutors to stop, counted as -1 at weight 0.9
- 2019-07-02 executive action — A published charging policy continuing marijuana prosecutions at a point when many Texas prosecutors paused them over hemp-testing difficulties, counted as -1 at weight 0.9
- 2017-02-16 statement — Declined to adopt a cite-and-release policy for low-level possession and said his county would continue enforcing possession law as written. A choice to maintain enforcement rather than a change in the law itself, counted as -1 at weight 0.6
Average on the −2 to +2 scale: -1. Full method and the bill table.
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Said2017-02-16
As Montgomery County District Attorney, responding to the newly elected Harris County District Attorney's cite-and-release policy for low-level marijuana possession, he said: "Unlike Harris County, Montgomery County will not become a sanctuary for dope smokers. I swore an oath to follow the law - all the laws, as written by the Texas Legislature. I don't get to pick and choose which laws I enforce,"
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Official act2019-07-02
Issued a charging-policy statement declining to limit marijuana prosecutions after House Bill 1325 legalised hemp, writing: "When a peace officer has developed probable cause to believe that an individual unlawfully possesses marihuana, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office will continue to accept and file appropriate criminal charges." The same statement said the office would not use the anticipated problems in implementing the new legislation as a pretext to achieve the policy goal of ending prosecution of marihuana cases.
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Said2019-11-12
Asked about the expansion of CBD retail in Montgomery County, he said: "Right now, it's kind of like the wild, wild west when it comes to CBD oil. It's not regulated. It's often times not tested. You don't know where it's being produced from," and described the role of the District Attorney as being to make a decision based on what the community standards are and what the law is.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A description of an unregulated retail market and of the office's role. It does not state a position for or against lawful access, so it is shown but not scored.
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Official act2020-03-04
In a letter to law enforcement about Texas Department of Public Safety crime-lab capacity to test for THC, he wrote: "I have not changed my commitment to prosecute marijuana cases and will continue to do so," and described asking the State to provide the laboratory with the resources to analyse both misdemeanour and felony cases.
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 Ron C. Angeletti, 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.
The candidate's own campaign site was found and read on 2026-09-21 at angelettifortexas.org — located by search and confirmed to name this candidate before anything was attributed to them. Its home page and any JavaScript bundle it loads were read, and they display no mention of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD or Compassionate Use.
⚠️The site publishes no sitemap, so this covers the pages reachable from the home page rather than necessarily the whole site.
⚠️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 checked, and read in full on 2026-10-05: this candidate’s Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Ron_Angeletti, which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
Also checked, and read in full on 2026-10-06: this candidate’s own campaign site at angelettifortexas.org. The page itself is drawn in the browser and serves only 36 characters of text, so its JavaScript bundle at angelettifortexas.org/assets/index-BTOxFC5l.js (561,358 bytes, robots-checked and permitted before it was fetched) was read instead; that bundle carries the site’s own words, including the line "Paid for by Ron Angeletti for Texas Senate District 4", which is how the site is identified as his.
Neither the page nor the bundle 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 2026-10-17: his campaign site angelettifortexas.org, whose words are carried by a single script bundle, read as the home page plus that bundle (assets/index-BTOxFC5l.js, the same file read on 2026-10-15), both 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.
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 Ron C. Angeletti
Pages read in full:
- angelettifortexas.org their own site — sections on the page: a single page titled "Campaign for Texas Senate District 4" that is drawn in the browser and serves only 36 characters of text by itself
- angelettifortexas.org/assets/index-BTOxFC5l.js their own site — sections on the page: the JavaScript bundle that carries the site’s own words, including its A.C.T.I.O.N.S. platform items on healthcare and long-term care for seniors, property tax relief and public safety
- communityimpact.com/new-caney-porter/election/q-a-learn-more-about-the-candidates-for-texas-senate-district-4 — sections on the page: Community Impact’s candidate Q&A for this November race, published 2026-09-17, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). The paper put its own questions to each candidate and printed the answers it received. The candidate answered, in free text of their own, and no answer printed 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. No cannabis question was asked, and no candidate in the race mentions any of those words anywhere on the page.
- onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=71560692 — 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 Ron C. Angeletti (Dem). The page prints no election date and no date for any answer. The questions were: What training, experience, and characteristics qualify you for this position? / Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the nation. What steps would you take as a state senator to ensure access to affordable healthcare, including mental health services, for Texans who are currently uninsured or underserved? / 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? / What specific actions would you take to address the cost of living pressures facing Texans, including rising property taxes, homeowner and renter insurance costs, and housing affordability? 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.
All 2 candidates on this ballot are listed.