US House, District 38
A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering part of north-west Harris County. No cannabis or hemp record was found for any candidate on this ballot, in Congress or in the Texas Legislature. Each was checked against the sources listed on their pages.
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 — 82% of it was inside district 38 on the 119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026; the rest came from district 8 (15%), district 18 (2.1%), district 7 (0.5%) and district 2 (0.5%). 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 Jon Bonck, and the limits on it
Checked on 2026-09-18: their campaign site including its coalitions page, a voter-guide profile read in full which asks no drug-policy question, their published biography, an endorsing organisation's page, their Ballotpedia entry and their campaign social accounts.
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/Jon_Bonck, 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 www.jonbonck.com — found by search and confirmed to name this candidate before it was attributed to them. 3 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/Jon_Bonck (16230 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 4 page(s), of which 3 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 Jon Bonck
Pages read in full:
- www.jonbonck.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: 4 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.
- onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=71558323 — 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 3 candidates, the same field as the November 2026 ballot, this candidate among them as Jon Bonck (Rep). The page prints no election date and no date for any answer. The questions were: What is your approach to federal infrastructure investment, and how would you prioritize funding for energy, transportation, flood mitigation, and resilience needs in your district? / If elected to office, what will you do to address rising costs, especially with regard to groceries, childcare, and housing? / What is your position on federal immigration enforcement and detention policies? What specific changes, if any, would you support to how those policies are implemented? / What changes, if any, to current laws related to voter registration, voter ID, and mail-in ballots would you support and why? 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.
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.
- 2024-02-26 questionnaire — Answered Support to legalising and regulating marijuana like alcohol for adults and to removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, and wrote in favour of decriminalisation, regulation and taxation, counted as +2 at weight 1.2
Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 2. Full method and the bill table.
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Questionnaire2024-02-26
Answered Texas NORML's candidate survey as a candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. House District 38, printed in its 2024 Texas Marijuana Policy Voter's Guide, Primary Election Edition. Her row records "Support" in all four of the survey's federal columns: legalising and regulating marijuana like alcohol for adults 21 and over, removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, giving state-licensed cannabis businesses legal access to the banking system, and allowing Veterans Administration doctors to recommend cannabis to treat service-related injuries.
Her written comment reads: "Marijuana is harmless, and all the current dangers around it are due to its status as an illegal substance. Decriminalization, regulation, and taxation provide benefits that overwhelmingly outweigh any perceived benefits of keeping it illegal."
⚠️This is 2024 evidence, not 2026. The guide prints no publication date; the date recorded here is 2024-02-26, the day the guide file was placed on texasnorml.org (the server's Last-Modified date for the file, Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:09:38 GMT, and the upload date in the site's own media library), ahead of the 5 March 2024 primary.
⚠️The guide's table is printed sideways, so her row was confirmed by its position on the page, not by the order of the extracted text: the four answers and every line of the comment sit inside the band between the drawn row of Wesley P. Hunt (Incumbent) above and that of Gion Christopher Thomas below, in the block labelled U.S. Rep. District 38.
⚠️Identity rests on the same name, party and district as the 2026 Democratic nominee.
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 Alex McMenemy, and the limits on it
Checked on 2026-09-18: their campaign site, read in full: it carries eight policy areas and none concerns drug policy.
Also the Green Party of Texas nominee page.
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/Alex_McMenemy, 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/Alex_McMenemy (16054 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.
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 Alex McMenemy
Pages read in full:
- alexforthepeople.org their own site — sections on the page: What are the problems?; What can we DO about it?, listing universal healthcare and education, money in politics, and peace Read 2026-10-17 in a fresh crawl starting from the homepage: 5 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); 2 at HTTP 404 could not be read. 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.
- onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=71558323 — 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 3 candidates, the same field as the November 2026 ballot, this candidate among them as Alex McMenemy (Grn). The page prints no election date and no date for any answer. The questions were: What is your approach to federal infrastructure investment, and how would you prioritize funding for energy, transportation, flood mitigation, and resilience needs in your district? / If elected to office, what will you do to address rising costs, especially with regard to groceries, childcare, and housing? / What is your position on federal immigration enforcement and detention policies? What specific changes, if any, would you support to how those policies are implemented? / What changes, if any, to current laws related to voter registration, voter ID, and mail-in ballots would you support and why? 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 3 candidates on this ballot are listed.