Is your son or daughter doing ecstacy?

In contrast to the Washington Post article on MDMA in therapy, it is somewhat anachronistic to find an article warning local residents of the dangers of this new drug, ecstasy. Are the people from Altona, Manitoba, really so isolated that they don't have a proofreader or even know how to spell ecstasy?

Is you [sic] son or daughter doing ecstacy [sic]? Has your best friend decided to try it “just once.” Have you? Ecstasy use is on the rise in Altona, and local police say a recent possession charge is only the beginning.

Altona Police picked up an individual under the intoxicated person detention act, and through the course of the arrest learned the suspect was high on ecstacy [sic]...

This drug is a new one on the Altona Police.

The Altona Police have never seen ecstasy? At least they know what to look for now:

Visible side effects of ecstacy [sic] use include dilated pupils, involuntary eye movement, sweaty palms, heavy sweating, increased heart rate, increased body temperature, heightened touch sensations, chattiness, restlessness, chattering teeth and muscle spasms.

Lookout chatty people, the Altona police are on to you now. And to wrap it all up we have a strange piece of vaguely scary disinformation:

People trying the drug for the first time are also in dangerous territory. Some people simply lack the proper enzymes to break down the drug. Ingesting the drug will prove fatal in those cases.

WTF? Is this true? Anybody?