US House, District 33
A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering part of Dallas County. The records below are votes and cosponsorships in Congress, listed in date order, each with its own source.
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 — 35% of it was inside district 33 on the 119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026; the rest came from district 30 (36%), district 32 (22%), district 6 (5.6%) and district 24 (0.8%). Your own district may have changed number without your address changing. Check your own address in the district finder.
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 Patrick David Gillespie, and the limits on it
Checked on 2026-09-18: their campaign site, two voter-guide profiles, their published platform page, Fort Worth Report launch coverage and their Ballotpedia entry.
Also checked: the Spectrum News report of 2026-03-03 on Texas candidates and THC policy, the only outlet that put the question directly to 2026 congressional candidates, which does not quote them; and NORML’s Texas guide, which covers sitting members of Congress only. We also checked the full membership roll of the 89th Texas Legislature: this candidate is not a member, so there is no state roll call to attribute.
Also checked, and read in full on 2026-09-18: this candidate's Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Patrick_David_Gillespie, including any Candidate Connection survey answers published there, which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC or CBD.
The candidate's own campaign site was read on 2026-09-20 at patrickgillespie4congress33.com — found by search and confirmed to name this candidate before it was attributed to them. 7 pages were read: the homepage, any JavaScript bundle it loads, and the pages linked from it. None contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD or Compassionate Use.
⚠️This covers the reachable site, not necessarily the whole site: a page that nothing links to cannot be found this way, and at least one Texas candidate keeps their platform on exactly such a page.
Their Ballotpedia profile was read in full on 2026-09-20 at ballotpedia.org/Patrick_David_Gillespie (45613 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 2026-10-16, it recorded that they had not completed Ballotpedia’s 2026 Candidate Connection survey.
The site's own sitemap was read on 2026-09-21, which reaches pages nothing links to. Their campaign site publishes a sitemap listing 9 page(s), of which 9 were read — the sweep skips assets and archive listings rather than prose — and none of those pages contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD or Compassionate Use.
⚠️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.
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 Patrick David Gillespie
Pages read in full:
- onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=25678627 — sections on the page: Note; democracy; Get ready to fight immigration; cost of living; Climate change; other issues — 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.
- patrickgillespie4congress33.com their own site — sections on the page: Read 2026-09-20. No cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC, CBD or Compassionate Use anywhere on the page. Read 2026-10-17 in a fresh crawl starting from the homepage: 9 pages read at HTTP 200 (the homepage, the site’s sitemaps, every page it links to one level down, and the pages under its issues and news sections). No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, rescheduling, Schedule iii, safer Banking or decriminalisation term on a word boundary in the text or the raw page source of any page read. The same crawler, run the same day from each homepage, found the published cannabis planks on three campaign sites used as controls.
- www.texasnorml.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Texas-Marijuana-Policy-Primary-Voter-Guide-by-Texas-NORML.pdf — sections on the page: Texas NORML's 2024 Texas Marijuana Policy Voter's Guide, Primary Election Edition, read by us on 2026-10-16 (HTTP 200; on texasnorml.org since 2024-02-26). Texas NORML put questions on cannabis policy to candidates in the March 2024 primaries and printed their answers. It lists this candidate among the Republican candidates for U.S. House District 33, and every answer box in that row is empty, which the guide's own key defines as "Blank = Did not Respond". ⚠️The table is printed sideways, so the row was matched to the name by its position on the page, not by the order of the extracted text: on page 5 it is the row between Brian Williams, the last row of the District 32 block, above and Kurt Schwab below, inside the block labelled U.S. Rep. District 33. ⚠️Identity is matched by name, party and district only. This records an unanswered 2024 survey, not a silence of their own choosing.
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.
- 2022-07-26 vote — Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
- 2022-04-04 vote — Medical Marijuana Research Act, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
- 2022-04-01 vote — Raskin amendment on security clearances, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
- 2022-04-01 vote — MORE Act (117th Congress), counted as +2 at weight 1.8
- 2021-04-19 vote — SAFE Banking Act (117th Congress), counted as +1 at weight 1.8
- 2020-12-04 vote — MORE Act (116th Congress), counted as +2 at weight 1.8
- 2020-02-13 cosponsorship — Veterans Cannabis Use for Safe Healing Act, counted as +1 at weight 0.6
- 2019-09-25 vote — SAFE Banking Act (116th Congress), counted as +1 at weight 0.9
- 2019-06-20 vote — Blumenauer amendment on Justice Department funds, counted as +2 at weight 0.9
- 2018-06-07 statement — Argued medical marijuana can help veterans with PTSD and chronic pain: support for medical access, counted as +1 at weight 0.6
Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 1.326. Full method and the bill table.
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Said2018-06-07
Said during his 2018 campaign, in a statement recorded by NORML: "It is unfortunate that Pete Sessions refuses to acknowledge that medical marijuana can help our veterans coming back from war who are struggling with PTSD and chronic pain."
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Vote2019-06-20
Recorded Aye on House Roll Call 370, the Blumenauer amendment to H.R. 3055 barring Justice Department funds from interfering with state adult-use cannabis programs, which carried 267 to 165.
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Vote2019-09-25
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 544, passage of H.R. 1595, the SAFE Banking Act.
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Coauthored2020-02-13
Became a cosponsor of H.R. 2191 of the 116th Congress, the Veterans Cannabis Use for Safe Healing Act.
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Vote2020-12-04
Recorded Nay on House Roll Call 234, the motion to recommit H.R. 3884, the MORE Act, with instructions.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site does not score procedural motions, such as suspending a rule, postponing, recommitting or reconsidering, because such a motion decides how a bill is handled rather than what it does, and its scoring rules read this record as one.
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Vote2020-12-04
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 235, passage of H.R. 3884, the MORE Act, which would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act schedules.
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Vote2021-04-19
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 120, passage of H.R. 1996, the SAFE Banking Act, as amended.
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Vote2022-04-01
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 103, the Gottheimer amendment to H.R. 3617, the MORE Act, authorising $10 million for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to study how law enforcement might detect marijuana impairment in drivers; the amendment was agreed to, 243 Yeas to 172 Nays.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A study of impairment detection, which neither widens nor narrows who may lawfully possess cannabis. It is printed because it is a recorded vote on a cannabis question, and left out of the score because it takes no side on one.
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Vote2022-04-01
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 104, the Lamb amendment to H.R. 3617, the MORE Act, directing the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to study the workplace effects of legalisation in states that have legalised recreational use; the amendment was agreed to, 234 Yeas to 189 Nays.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A study of workplace effects, which neither widens nor narrows who may lawfully possess cannabis. It is printed because it is a recorded vote on a cannabis question, and left out of the score because it takes no side on one.
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Vote2022-04-01
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 105, the Raskin amendment to H.R. 3617, the MORE Act, providing that cannabis use shall not be a reason to deny or rescind a security clearance; the amendment failed, 209 Yeas to 214 Nays.
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Vote2022-04-01
Recorded Nay on House Roll Call 106, the motion to recommit H.R. 3617, the MORE Act; the motion failed, 202 Yeas to 220 Nays.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site does not score procedural motions, such as suspending a rule, postponing, recommitting or reconsidering, because such a motion decides how a bill is handled rather than what it does, and its scoring rules read this record as one.
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Vote2022-04-01
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 107, passage of H.R. 3617, the MORE Act, which would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act schedules; the bill passed, 220 Yeas to 204 Nays.
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Vote2022-04-04
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 108, passage of H.R. 5657, the Medical Marijuana Research Act, as amended.
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Vote2022-07-26
Recorded Yea on House Roll Call 392, passage of H.R. 8454, the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, as amended.
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Coauthored2023-06-07
Became a cosponsor of H.R. 2891 of the 118th Congress, titled the SAFE Banking Act of 2023 (Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2023) when introduced on 2023-04-26 by Rep. David P. Joyce and later retitled the SAFER Banking Act, whose official title as introduced was "To create protections for financial institutions that provide financial services to State-sanctioned marijuana businesses and service providers for such businesses, and for other purposes."
The govinfo cosponsor list records Rep. Allred, Colin Z. [D-TX-32], bioguide A000376, with a sponsorship date of 2023-06-07, not an original cosponsor.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site’s scoring rules could not match this record to a bill in its published bill table, so it is shown but not counted.
Certified write-in: Michelle Craig. Not printed on the ballot; votes are counted.
All 2 candidates on this ballot are listed.