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Carroll County's drug task force arrested a Westminster High School senior after seizing more than 800 doses of LSD -- the largest single haul of the drug in county history -- during a Wednesday night undercover operation.Blair Lee Brannock, 18, of Finksburg is scheduled to appear before a Carroll District judge this morning in a bid to reduce the $100,000 bail imposed on him early yesterday morning by a court commissioner.Mr. Brannock was charged with possession of LSD with the intent to distribute, a felony.

WASHINGTON -- A team of forensic scientists yesterday left open the possibility of homicide in the 1953 death of a Frederick researcher whose psyche was damaged by LSD in a secret government experiment.Reporting on a six-month investigation, the team that examined the remains of Frank R. Olson could not say conclusively whether he was slain or committed suicide after unwittingly taking the mind-altering drug in a CIA-run test.But neither possibility can be excluded, said James E. Starrs, the team leader and a professor of law and forensic science at George Washington University.

Two county youths have been treated at North Arundel Hospital this week after apparently ingesting LSD in two unrelated incidents, county police said yesterday.Police would not release the boys' names. A spokesman at North Arundel Hospital would neither confirm nor deny if either boy had ingested LSD.Police charged a 14-year-old Glen Burnie youth as a juvenile with selling LSD in the second case.He was released to his parents, said Officer Randy Bell, a police spokesman.The most recent incident occurred Wednesday morning.

Howard County Police arrested nine people in the Village of Long Reach early Thursday, charging them with possession and distribution of LSD.Police said the group sold undercover detectives 529 doses of LSD. During the arrest, officers said, they found more than half a pound of marijuana, 17.5 grams of hashish and 200 doses of LSD at the apartment in the 8700 block of Cloudleap Court.Among those charged were three residents of the apartment: John Elias Husk, 20, Seth Alexander Husk, 20, and Scott Alan MacDonald, 27.Other adults charged were Daniel Patrick Lovell, 24, of the 6100 block of Adcock Lane in Hanover; Robert Lee Carter, 31, of the 11700 block of Wayneridge St. in Fulton; Candy Marie MacDonald, 24, of the 4900 block of Grindon Ave. in Baltimore; and Scott Edward Dauer, 26, of no fixed address.

A former Bel Air High School student who was arrested last month on charges of twice selling LSD to an undercover #F policeman just before his 18th birthday on Feb. 14 lost his bid in Circuit Court last week to keep his case in the juvenile court system.Abel Martin Cruzado of the 700 block of Cagney Court had been detained at the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Baltimore County since his arrest April 26.Mr. Cruzado was suspended from Bel Air High School the same day and subsequently "was withdrawn by the school," said county schools spokesman Donald R. Morrison.

Toni Brown of Brooklyn, N.Y., figures it was three years ago when she first noticed something weird going on in her mailbox.As editor of Relix, a magazine dedicated largely to the Grateful Dead, she was receiving loads of mail from fans -- Deadheads. Many were written from inside federal prisons."And it was not just a few isolated letters," said Ms. Brown, whose magazine has become so swamped with such letters today that it prints them under a new section, dubbed "Heads Behind Bars."What Ms. Brown was seeing back in 1991 were the first results of an undercover operation by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, as well as local and state police, to target the buying and selling of LSD at Grateful Dead concerts.

Four Taneytown juveniles were arrested and charged Tuesday with selling marijuana and LSD to an undercover officer during a three-month investigation last year.Police Chief Mel Diggs said the youths, two 15-year-olds and two 16-year-olds, were released to their parents' custody after they were charged. They will be tried in Juvenile Court.The chief said the investigation was conducted from August to October while the undercover officer worked with an informant from the area. Small "buys" were made at that time.

BOSTON -- A mentally ill patient who was given LSD by physicians experimenting at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in the 1950s killed herself within hours of taking the potent psychedelic drug, says a Cambridge, Mass., psychiatrist who had been following her progress at the time."They gave this patient LSD one morning and when I came back from lunch that day, I was told she had hung herself in the downstairs bathroom," Dr. Robert Reid said yesterday. Dr. Reid said he was not told until after the woman's death that she had been given LSD."

John Cook got the warning flier from his foreman at work. Nancy Winter's child brought it home from nursery school. It crops up in pediatricians' waiting rooms and on computer bulletin boards.It's known as the Blue Star Letter.Warning that persons unknown are selling a temporary tattoo in the shape of a blue star that's soaked in the hallucinogen LSD, it's targeted primarily at families of preschool and elementary school children.It causes outbreaks of fear and concern among parents. It also causes headaches for police and drug abuse officials in Maryland and across the country.

County police arrested three Annapolis men and a Calvert County man on drug charges Friday in a raid on a house in the 1900 block of Severn Grove Road, Annapolis.Police said yesterday that members of the Southern District Tactical Narcotics Team and Special Operation Section seized 58 grams of marijuana, 75 doses of LSD and $1,317 when they searched the house.Kenneth L. Elser, 22, Richard A. Melton, 25, and David L. Hazel, 30, all of whom live in the house on Severn Grove Road, were charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.