A Dictionary of Dutchness

XTC

XTC is the Dutch way of spelling the party drug ecstasy. Ecstasy is the only hard drug to have gone up in popularity in the Netherlands over the past 10 years and around 1% of the population now uses it at least once a year. In early 2007, Haarlem police raided what was said to be the biggest ecstasy laboratory ever found in the country, capable of producing a whopping 100,000 pills an hour.