SCHOOL-BUY PROGRAM NETS LSD.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer A North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the husky, and the school colors are blue, white, grey. student who sold some marijuana to an undercover LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officer also unwittingly provided authorities with a profitable lead. The result, police say, is the largest seizure of LSD LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide (lī'sûr`jĭk, dī'ĕth`ələmĭd, dī'ĕthəlăm`ĭd), alkaloid synthesized from lysergic acid, which is found in the fungus ergot ( in the history of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's undercover school buy program - 900 hits of the psychedelic drug psychedelic drug (sī'kədĕl`ĭk): see hallucinogenic drug. that students and police say is returning to high school campuses locally. ``It's coming back. It's definitely on the rise,'' said LAPD Detective Everett Berry, who oversees the program in which officers enroll as students at high schools in the city. ``It's kind of like there is nothing new under the sun and it's cycling back.'' Catherine Lum n. 1. A chimney. 2. A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine. 3. A woody valley; also, a deep pool. , principal at North Hollywood, said the imagery and mystique surrounding Timothy Leary - whose advocacy of LSD was well-publicized in the months preceding his death - is difficult to overcome. ``Here we are at the school, saying to students, `Don't do this. This is harmful. It has such lasting effects, (and is) something you should not do,'' she said. Then, she said, ``There are (stories) about this wonderful human being . . . I think that there is a very mixed message out there to young people.'' The LSD purchased off-campus in the North Hollywood High investigation, is worth an estimated $4,500. During the entire semester-long undercover operation, police said they made 195 buys of various drugs on and off campuses and arrested 160 people suspected of being drug dealers, 113 of them students. Nine city schools were targeted, including five schools in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. : Taft in Woodland Hills, Kennedy in Granada Hills, Granada Hills High, North Hollywood High and John Francis Polytechnic in Sun Valley. Authorities seized more than 37 pounds in marijuana, more than one pound of cocaine and nearly one half of a pound of methamphetamines. The total value of the drugs seized was $320,000. In some cases, tips generated on high school campuses led to bigger busts. ``I appreciate the support we get from the LAPD with the drug buy program - that helps us send a very clear message to all our students that it is not tolerated,'' said Granada Hills High Principal Kathleen Rattay. |
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