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What marijuana enforcement looks like across Texas.

Texas Cannabis Ledger is an independent public-data research project organizing Texas DPS county records. It is not a news organization.

Texas cannabis records: common questions

How many marijuana arrest records does Texas report for 2025?

The Ledger sums 41,701 marijuana-coded arrest records for 2025 from the Texas DPS Computerized Criminal History county/offense workbook, including 41,049 possession-coded records. These aggregate records do not establish a count of unique people or unique arrest events.

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What is the statewide rate?

For 2025, the calculated rate is 131.5 records per 100,000 residents. It divides records by the Census population estimates for the 250 counties with matching source rows. County records may involve nonresidents; this is not an individual risk of arrest.

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Why does the Ledger differ from FBI-based totals?

The Texas DPS criminal-history workbook and FBI agency reporting are different systems. The Ledger documents the published difference without treating the totals as interchangeable or claiming to have established its cause.

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Which years and counties are covered?

The current corpus covers arrest years 2023, 2024, 2025 and provides a page for each of Texas’s 254 counties. The source workbook was published January 13, 2026. That is a snapshot date, not a year of enforcement results. Missing rows are labeled separately from reported zero counts.

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Sources, dates and corrections

Source: Texas DPS Computerized Criminal History county/offense workbook, published January 13, 2026; arrest years 2023, 2024, 2025. Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 county estimates. Dataset assembled 2026-09-02; page reviewed .

Counts represent marijuana-coded arrest records, not necessarily unique people or arrest events. Missing source rows remain distinct from reported zero counts. Read definitions and limitations. Download the normalized CSV.

Created by Nick French and maintained by StackSwap. Independent of Texas DPS and the Census Bureau. Request a correction with the page, year, source row and proposed correction. Reports are checked against the original files before published figures change.