Buying Pot in Amsterdam

[xami]

Is it true that the rules are being changed(or have been chaned) so that you have to be living in amsterdam in order to purchase cannabis from the coffee shops?

If this is true and it hasn't been done yet, is there a date that this is going to take place?

Im planning on going to amsterdam later this year and would be gutted if i couldnt get blazed..

Thanks for any input..

 

[Woomeister]

All they are going to do is close all coffee shops that are within 250 meters of school. Which is about 43 of the the 250ish shops. Jan 26th is the date I think.

 

[tebor]

In the rest of the Netherlands they are trying to make the ones near borders of other countries private only.

 

[growwwww]

Dude it will never become illegal or unavailable to tourists, it brings them wayyyyyy tooo much money. And hold on is this happening jan 26th coming up!!! Gutted, im going on the 14th of Feb 43 LESS COFFEE SHOPS DAMN!!! ha

 

[redivider]

you have to be 18 to buy pot in amsterdam, and they DO ask for ID,

but since you have to be 18 to get on this site, it's ok....

 

[growwwww]

Yea ive been before, as long as you are 18 its fine. But what im saying is the coffee shops aint going no where fast

 

[racerboy71]

43 less coffee shops in the dam will never be missed, unless they are some of the better ones of course... i spent a week there last year, and may have hit about 10 or so different coffee shops within the week... i would think that you would have to be there for a year before you got around to every single coffee shop there... that is unless you do a shop crawl, which are pretty popular around the time of the cup...
i have even heard that they are taking out some of the redlight district and putting in high end like cutoure fashioin shops that no one will buy crap from...

 

[Woomeister]

Yea ive been before, as long as you are 18 its fine. But what im saying is the coffee shops aint going no where fast

Im afraid you are quite wrong, I have friends in Holland and go at least twice a year and slowly but surely things are tightening up. Just remember pot is tolerated it is NOT legal. The coffee shops, on the whole, are small and cannot provide seperate smoking rooms fopeople that smoke tobacco. Since a big majority of European smokers mix tobacco with there pot only the bigger ones are now being frequented. Smoking tobacco in public places was banned a couple of years back and is hitting the shops hard. The law about designated areas for shops is set to change again as the 250metres from a school law was an interim compromise. They wanted to ban all shops that were within 1km, that would get rid of all of them. Mushrooms were banned at the end of 2008. The locals do not like the 'drug tourism' and the revenue created by them is not that high. The average drug tourist stays in cheap accomodation and spend very little on anything other than smoke and beer. Amsterdam is a thriving tourist hub without the drugs and the city would survive quite easily without coffeee shops.

 

[WusSupHoez420]

Dude it will never become illegal or unavailable to tourists, it brings them wayyyyyy tooo much money. And hold on is this happening jan 26th coming up!!! Gutted, im going on the 14th of Feb 43 LESS COFFEE SHOPS DAMN!!! ha

Well i just came back from amsterdam about 2 blocks from the redlight district....and the locals said with in the next couple years there trying to flood out all the coffe shops........

they also dont even sell shrooms anymore sum shit called like shrivals or sumshit butthey fukin suk..........

 

[WusSupHoez420]

Im afraid you are quite wrong, I have friends in Holland and go at least twice a year and slowly but surely things are tightening up. Just remember pot is tolerated it is NOT legal. The coffee shops, on the whole, are small and cannot provide seperate smoking rooms fopeople that smoke tobacco. Since a big majority of European smokers mix tobacco with there pot only the bigger ones are now being frequented. Smoking tobacco in public places was banned a couple of years back and is hitting the shops hard. The law about designated areas for shops is set to change again as the 250metres from a school law was an interim compromise. They wanted to ban all shops that were within 1km, that would get rid of all of them. Mushrooms were banned at the end of 2008. The locals do not like the 'drug tourism' and the revenue created by them is not that high. The average drug tourist stays in cheap accomodation and spend very little on anything other than smoke and beer. Amsterdam is a thriving tourist hub without the drugs and the city would survive quite easily without coffeee shops.

Didnt see this before i posted but this guy is 100% correct....dont be suprised if they dont have anymore coffe shops in the next couple of years so go now.

Me and my buddie are going to go agine ths year just beacuse of the shit thats going on. I would love to experience amsterdam ONE last time

 

[Hogg]

Its ok. we will be able to just go to Cali or one of a dozen other states within a very few years!

 

[growwwww]

Dude that is such rubbish seriously, think about it! how much money they get from these places, and that is all they really care about...


Also does anyone know whos been recently i.e this year/last month or so if u can get truffles in the smart shops ?

 

[gordonbrown]

if and when you go, hit up the grey area and smoke silver bubble haze. best smoke there.

 

[WusSupHoez420]

Dude that is such rubbish seriously, think about it! how much money they get from these places, and that is all they really care about...


Also does anyone know whos been recently i.e this year/last month or so if u can get truffles in the smart shops ?

They are the new version of ("shrooms") since they banned them in 08. THEY FUKIN SUK. i wouldnt reccomend them for the price they charge. & yes you can buy them in smart shops......

 

[WusSupHoez420]

if and when you go, hit up the grey area and smoke silver bubble haze. best smoke there.

i would say super silver haze, kali mist, & chocolope!

 

[Woomeister]

Dude that is such rubbish seriously, think about it! how much money they get from these places, and that is all they really care about...


Also does anyone know whos been recently i.e this year/last month or so if u can get truffles in the smart shops ?

You dont understand how the Dutch think!

Amsterdam’s architecture and
ambience appreciated most​

Amsterdam is the world’s ninth most popular
city.​

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9 Amsterdam’s good accessibility renders it
attractive to significant numbers of visitors from
neighbouring regions (Flanders and Nordrhein-
Westfalen) and other European cities (London,
Paris, Madrid and Barcelona).10 Furthermore,
the city attracts visitors from areas with high
economic growth and substantial purchasing
power (southern Germany, northern Italy,
California, New York, Texas, Illinois and Florida).
Visitors come primarily for cultural attractions
(38%), ambience (26%) and museums (24%), but
also to shop (11%) or visit a coffeeshop (7%).
The recreational itinerary of the average tourist
is as follows: a walk through the city, shopping,
eating out, round trips on the canals and visits
to two museums. Business travellers also have
recreational activities: walking, canal round
trips, museum visits, eating out and shopping.
Amsterdam’s architecture (39%) and its ambience
(33%) are its most appreciated features. However,
the inhabitants of Amsterdam also received
appreciation for their tolerance and command of
foreign languages. Litter (11%) and overcrowding​

(10%) were deemed the city’s least attractive aspects.
These figure come from asking 6000 tourists in all areas of Amsterdam. You only have to check out Dutch national statistics papers to see how little closing the coffee shops would effect tax income.
There is an estimated 1.6 billion Euros spent on smokeables in the Nederlands each year but as 95% of sales are cash sales who knows what tax is actually gleaned by the government? They dont because they dont know how much is being grown...The government is the source for this comment, go check it out aswell if you disagree. As I have said previously I visit twice a year to see friends, one of which is a civil servant, and the average dutch person is sick of the drug tourist...Your opinions are only that, the facts are different.

 

[growwwww]

Hmmmm my dutch friend thinks otherwise :/ maybe hes just misled. I say its improbable...because the coffee shops are business supporting families and loads of things, aswell the hostel industry in amsterdamn is madly relyant on coffeeshops as an attraction ( lots of them use them to adveratise i.e say its near here, etc... )

hmm maybe it will happen, i kind doubt it.

 

[Spoc]

Woomeister had me earlier at "drug tourist"
I'd like to think the average drug tourist spends his/her money on
things other than smoke and beer.
In reality this is where my money would go
The locals must hate this atmosphere

 

[TreesAsMedicine]

Coffe shops there will never close. What a lot of people don't know is that medicinally, pot is used throughout europe (Mainly because they don't have the closed minded inbred morons running there government). The same rumors went around in 2000 when holland joined the EU. Get your ticket, get off the plane in amsterdam. The morning you get there, take the train from the airport to the main train station in Amsterdam. Walk out the front of the station, be amazed at all the fucking bicycles chaind to the rails around there (They are not free just to take, which a lot of people believe) and walk strait. Stay AWAY from anyone offering you blow or x. They will annoy the shit out of you, put it in your face, even offer you a taste. What you dont see is the cops watching, who will bust you, then give the dope back, and it is a circle of life there. This does NOT happen everywhere, usually just outside the redlight. A lot of peeps from GB go there for a long weekend and just stay fucked up. Enjoy the coffee shops, I would reccommend getting a prerolled hooter at your first shop. They usuall mix 50/50 with tobacco, and that will definalty help you ease into that shit. Dont by the hardest stuff first, you will be retarded.

Amsterdam is also one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.

Steal the glasses from your free beers at the Heineken experience (They sell them for 10 Euros in the store, and I was glad I put four in my backpack)

House of Anne Frank is cool.

The overall atmosphere there is amazing. I have been several times sober (Military) and when I got out of the military, It was a whole new town. I love it, and I would live in that city forever if I could. The whole country is cool as hell as well.

Have a blast, I am planning my next trip for cannibus cup (Thannksgiving weekend) which all my smoke buddies think has gotten to commercialized, but so has Disney World and that place is still pretty fucking cool.

Dont loose your passport

Everyone speaks english, but learn and try as much of the language as you can, this way, you are not another out of town stoner and you know a little about their culture (ITs a respect thing)

I always used Hard Rock Cafe as a central reference point. Near everything in the city center, including redlight/resturaunts/coffeeshops/clubs etc. Plus there is a bad ass irish pub on top of it.

If you do go clubbing, they usually only allow a small amount of green or hash, never shrooms or blow etc, so do that shit before.

Be cool with everybody, and the response to you will be the same. Remember, these people in the red light have seen it all and know how to handle it.

Have fun, Im jelous.

Hit me up if you got anymore questions. I love talking about that place.

 

[Woomeister]

Hmmmm my dutch friend thinks otherwise :/ maybe hes just misled. I say its improbable...because the coffee shops are business supporting families and loads of things, aswell the hostel industry in amsterdamn is madly relyant on coffeeshops as an attraction ( lots of them use them to adveratise i.e say its near here, etc... )

hmm maybe it will happen, i kind doubt it.

I dont believe they will close either, I was just responding to your post about the reliance on the coffee shops. The truth is that the average tourist (including myself) doesnt go for the coffee shops, they go for the museums and culture. I will be going again in Nov as I do every year and will stay in Leidesplein, Wetteringshcaft , over looks the Rijks museum. The red light district is a dump and the coffee shops are crap imo, if you like sleaze and youngsters getting so fucked they cant walk or see properly, mixed with middle aged dumpy women cavorting half naked in windows then go for it. If you dont want that then stay in the Leidesplein area or the old town. Best tip! When you get out of the train station walk straight into the tram ticket office and get yourself a pass for the amount of days your are there. Cheap as hell, they run 24/7 and you can see the whole city, which isnt that big, but if you are stoned it saves time.