A preliminary hearing for a former University student charged with selling LSD to a confidential informant was delayed for two weeks because his attorney was unavailable.

Darren Wagner, 22, was released Feb. 28 on $25,000 bail. He is charged with the delivery of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, and criminal conspiracy.

According to court records, Wagner approached the informant and asked if he wanted to buy "acid." The informant told Wagner he would purchase one "sheet" of LSD for $150.

The drug costs between $2 and $5 per "hit" -- a piece of blotter paper by inches. A sheet of LSD is about the size of a credit card and has 100 hits, said State College Bureau of Police Services Investigator Ralph Ralston.

Wagner, a Milroy native, met the informant at the Penn Tower garage, 255 E. Beaver Ave., on Dec. 9, and gave the informant's money to another man who went to Altoona to get the drugs, according to police records.

Ralston, who is in charge of the investigation, said LSD use is on the rise. Because of its availability and price, LSD has "become a real fad with high school and college kids," he said.

"I will tell you it comes in from out of town but we also believe it is being manufactured here by somebody," Ralston said. "It's relatively easy to make, transport and conceal."

LSD, a hallucinogenic drug that reached its peak in popularity in the late 1960s, causes hallucinations, flashbacks, and sometimes depression.

Ralston would not comment specifically on Wagner's case because the investigation is continuing.