Texas Cannabis Ledger

What marijuana enforcement looks like across Texas.

Texas Cannabis Ledger is an independent public-data research project—not a news organization. It organizes county-level Texas DPS arrest records, normalized by population and shown without names, addresses, or case-level information.

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Enforcement years 2023–2025Source publication snapshot Jan. 13, 2026

The statewide total hides a deeply local story.

These figures describe reported arrests. They do not estimate cannabis use or explain why one county differs from another.

98.4%classified as possession
+5.4%%change in reported arrests since 2023
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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 and maintained by Nicholas French and StackSwap.ai. 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.