Kevin Verville is an American Republican politician. He serves in the

New Hampshire House of Representatives The New Hampshire House of Representatives is the lower house in the New Hampshire General Court, the bicameral State legislature (United States), legislature of the state of New Hampshire. The House of Representatives consists of 400 members com ...

in Rockingham County alongside Jason Osborne and James Spillane.

Political career

In 2023 he introduced legislation that would legalise

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s like

LSD Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German ; often referred to as acid or lucy), is a semisynthetic, hallucinogenic compound derived from ergot, known for its powerful psychological effects and serotonergic activity. I ...

and

psilocybin mushroom Psilocybin mushrooms, or psilocybin-containing mushrooms, commonly known as magic mushrooms or as shrooms, are a type of hallucinogenic mushroom and a polyphyletic informal group of fungi that contain the prodrug psilocybin, which turns into t ...

s. In 2025, the effort to legalize was reduced to

decriminalization Decriminalization or decriminalisation is the legislative process which removes prosecutions against an action so that the action remains illegal but has no criminal penalties or at most some civil fine. This reform is sometimes applied retroacti ...

with HB-528.https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=92&inflect=2

References

Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Republican Party members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives People from Hillsborough County, New Hampshire American drug policy reform activists 21st-century members of the New Hampshire General Court {{New Hampshire politician stub