In the fourth instalment of the BAFTA-winning Narcos series comes Amsterdam Narcos, which follows how the cultural city turned into the drug capital of Europe from the 1970s to the early 2000s.

While it started as the government tolerating the hash trade, the situation quickly snowballed with organised crime swooping in and cocaine and ecstasy flooding the continent as rave culture began to take hold.

Soon Amsterdam fuelled a pipeline of drugs and criminality through British ports and across Europe, as traffickers exploited permissive attitudes to build one of the most lucrative drug markets in the world.

As the Dutch underworld exploded, the drugs trade spiralled out of control and turned Amsterdam into a ‘narco-state’. Law enforcement resorted to desperate measures in a bid to catch the gangsters responsible.

Their efforts to regain control had devastating consequences.

In the new series, drug users, manufacturers, traffickers, and detectives from the era lend us their insight, explaining how underground rebellion escalated into an increasingly deadly multi-billion-pound industry.