Sally Duval, a 59-year-old first-time candidate for the Texas House, has just taken what can only be described as a heroic bong rip, vigorously bubbling the water in the glass bong’s bottom chamber and then expertly riding the weed-packed bowl out of its holster as she inhaled deeply. Sitting at her kitchen table, she holds it in her lungs for several seconds while making that clenched, expectant face that pot smokers make—like a cat that’s swallowed a canary—before exhaling a cloud of smoke. It’s a product called Presidential Kush, from the High Hippy Flower Company, purchased at an Austin cannabis store, one of an estimated seven thousand across Texas selling what are essentially legal marijuana products.“Is this stuff pretty strong?” I ask. Duval is a…