By the 1990s, Dutch attitudes shifted in favour of increased policing, and the coffeeshop industry rapidly professionalized. Today, "the type of customer is more mainstream," Dekker said. "We see ...

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AMSTERDAM - Dutch coffee shop owners went to court Wednesday in a last ditch bid to block a government plan to stop foreigners from buying marijuana in the Netherlands.

Ironically, the reason the Dutch tolerance policy got going in the 1970s was not on the theory that marijuana was OK — it has always been viewed as a public health problem — but because ...

It will soon be illegal to smoke cannabis on the street in Amsterdam ’s red light district. The new regulations unveiled in the Dutch capital will come into effect from mid-May.

Amsterdam city council is introducing stricter laws on cannabis smoking in the Dutch city from May, with bar, sex show and brothel opening hours also impacted by the news rules Comments Travel ...

Amsterdam may be out of “legal weed” experiment February 29, 2024 Photo: DutchNews.nl Expanding the experiment to regulate marijuana production to include part of Amsterdam may not now happen, given a ...

When 420-friendly travelers hear the name of the Netherlands’ capital, that mile-wide smile like the Grinch crosses their faces. Although Amsterdam has been the face of cannabis tourism for four ...

The Dutch government is about to ruin one of the great attractions of post-adolescent wanderlust: the opportunity to smoke pot and get silly, legally, in an Amsterdam coffee shop.

Dutch govt scraps ‘weed pass’ designed to keep non-residents out of pot-selling coffee shops By Mike Corder The Associated Press Posted November 20, 2012 5:50 am 2 min read ...

A Dutch woman smokes a cannabis cigarette in a coffee shop in Amsterdam, Oct. 6, 2011. Photo by Toussaint Kluiters / REUTERS ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The city of Amsterdam, a popular destination for tourists who visit its marijuana coffee shops, will ban smoking cannabis in public in the red-light district as part of a ...