Smoking ban also applies to party tents,

[Puffin13]

Smoking ban also applies to party tents, and: smoking joints impossible for tourists in Amsterdam
published: Saturday, June 28 2008, 12:03AM

As the smoking ban in the Netherlands approaches, the authorities try to make the exact rules clear to the general public.

It was not entirely clear whether party tents (for example, tents used at outdoor pop concerts) were exempt from the smoking ban.
The Minister of Health said today they are not exempt.

Starting Tuesday, July 1, all tobacco smoking is prohibited in cafes, pubs, discos, hotels, restaurants, theaters, museums, cinemas, indoor shopping malls, congress centres, airports and sport venues. These venues had been exempted so far from the general smoking ban on the workplace that has applied since a few years.

Coffeeshops (the famous euphemism for places where you can buy soft drugs) will also become smoke-free.

This seems contradictory to the message on a special map that was presented recently by the Amsterdam Centre authority, together with the local police and the Amsterdam Tourist Board. The map will be handed out at tourist offices, hotels, etc.

The map, called 'Welcome to Amsterdam, but....' (downloadable as a PDF file, 3 MB), states that: 'Soft drugs such as cannabis and weed are not to be used in public places. Go to a coffeeshop'.
However, as of July 1, the soft drugs can also not be smoked in coffeeshops any more. There they will (or at least should) tell you that you have to smoke outside.
Smoking of softdrugs can be done inside, if not used with tobacco, because it is the smoking of tobacco that is prohibited. If you want to smoke cannabis with tobacco (as a joint or spliff) you must apparently do this at home, where it is still legal. For ordinary tourists this will be problematic: they ordinarily stay in hotels, where smoking is also not allowed any more.

It seems the days for smoking a joint in Amsterdam are over for tourists.

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[iwanitnow567]

only pure weed smoke from now on i guess

[greenleaf420]

lil confused can we still smoke pure cannabis in coffe shops after july 1st

[Boner]

lil confused can we still smoke pure cannabis in coffe shops after july 1st

Yes.

[greenleaf420]

thanks

[HasAnyoneSeenMyPipe]

Yeah the smoking ban wont affect us pipe and bong smokers.

[dajaxman]

i thought its poss to smoke if theres an enclosed area

Dajaxman

[Boner]

i thought its poss to smoke if theres an enclosed area

Dajaxman

It is but there isn't a lot that have the space to do so.

[iwanitnow567]

some coffee shops have second floors, would it count as a seperate room for tobbaco use?

[itsmymagicallife]

and: smoking joints impossible for tourists in Amsterdam
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This headline is so wrong. Tourists can still smoke joints mixed with tobacco outdoors at coffeeshops & bars as well as inside rooms in bars, clubs, & coffeeshops where no employees work. Simply Amsterdam should be ashamed for publishing such totally wrong information.

[itsmymagicallife]

some coffee shops have second floors, would it count as a seperate room for tobbaco use?

Yes, if no employees work on that floor and it has a door leading to where the employees work.

[iwanitnow567]

what if its like in softland or kadinsky, without a door, just stairs, but no employees?

[Boner]

Softland doesn't have a second floor and it has to be seperate from the rest of the coffeeshop.

[Crumblez]

Uh oh, in 23 hours the smoking ban will apply. Can't wait -.-.

[iwanitnow567]

Softland doesn't have a second floor and it has to be seperate from the rest of the coffeeshop.

im pretty sure it is... isnt softland the C/S right off the dam square with the great amnesia haze?