
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003152441
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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DATELINE: CULPEPER                                LENGTH: Short

LSD FLIER ACCURACY QUESTIONED BY POLICE

State police and Albemarle County authorities are questioning the accuracy of a flier warning parents about small bits of paper soaked with the drug LSD.

But police in Culpeper and Fauquier counties say the mass distribution of the fliers, whose origin is unknown, causes much undue concern. The flier describes tiny, colorful pieces of paper that have a dried form of the hallucinogen on them.

"In Albemarle County, we don't have a problem with stamps laced with LSD being distributed to children," said Sgt. John Tiexiera of the Albemarle County Police Department.

"I will say that when people circulate those types of fliers, there are often one or two true bits mixed with half-truths, and they become a community myth," Tiexiera said.

Tiexiera did not deny that the form of LSD described in the flier has existed for some time, but said he has not seen it in Albemarle County in recent years.

- Associated Press

by CNB