Calgary police are investigating more drug overdoses connected to ecstasy.
Police responded to a downtown hotel at around 6:30 Saturday morning to find a woman in her 20's unconscious.
EMS rushed her to Foothills Hospital along her friend who police say also ingested the drug.
The first woman was in critical condition but is now listed as stable and the second woman has since been released.
Duty Inspector Paul Malchow says the Edmonton area women bought the ecstasy here in Calgary on Friday.
He says police are still investigating whether the drugs were tainted with the chemical PMMA.
"We can safely assume that it is. People got sick immediately. It's actually consistent with the other related cases. These two people were very fortunate that they weren't sicker than they were," Malchow says.
The latest case comes a day after police revealed a 6th death tied to e containing PMMA.
Authorities revealed this week that a 43-year old man who died in July 2011 did ingest ecstasy with the tainted chemical.
Police are still awaiting toxicology results after a SAIT student and a man from Nanton died of a suspected overdose.
Meantime police say Canada has joined Colombia as a leading exporter of designer drugs.
RCMP have seized tonnes of illicit synthetic drugs including ecstasy and 'meth' that were to be shipped abroad after being "cooked" in make-shift labs in the Toronto area.
Q-M-I agency reports that police at Canadian border checks are seizing more chemicals and synthetic drugs than cocaine, heroine or 'hash.'
Most of the drugs are smuggled out of Canada on trucks as air cargo or by courier to a network of waiting drug traffickers.
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