13 IN PENANG FINED FOR TAKING ECSTASY

BALIK PULAU: Thirteen men were fined RM4,000 each by a magistrate's
court yesterday for taking Ecstasy pills in the first such conviction
on Penang Island.

The group had on Aug 8 pleaded guilty to administering themselves with
either methylene dioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylene
dioxyamphetamine (MDA) or methamphetamine.(sic)

This was the first time in Penang that anyone was charged and convicted
of self-administrating amphetamine-based stimulants (ATS), commonly
known as Ecstasy.