List of the coffeeshops wich have to close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Boat Drinks]

It's not Mellow Yellows original location.


On topic, wow, just wow and oh well never mind at least Media will make my top 3in next years vote, but joking aside, just wow!

Oh...thanks.

was that off topic?

[Sailor59]

The goods are permanent, the shops are spurious. Does it really matter that say, Utopia, relocates to another location? No, as long as the buds and tenders follow them. Changing schools is disruptive and totally wrong. We need to preserve our children's, and for some of us grand-children's, education. Perhaps a move out of the Centrum will be good for the better shops and no-where is far away in the Dam. The rip off joints and those with inferior weed that relocate will wither on the vine as locals will shun them and the 18 year old chavs cant find them or rather they will just patronise the other surviving shops making them off limits to a lot of us. It could be a good thing.

[spidergawd]

They'll should dimantle Mellow Yellow and re-erect it in the city museum. The first one me and my Mrs visited together.

[Sailor59]

They'll should dimantle Mellow Yellow and re-erect it in the city museum. The first one me and my Mrs visited together.

Get a grip. Soft old cow.

[Cry Tuff]

The goods are permanent, the shops are spurious. Does it really matter that say, Utopia, relocates to another location? No, as long as the buds and tenders follow them. Changing schools is disruptive and totally wrong. We need to preserve our children's, and for some of us grand-children's, education. Perhaps a move out of the Centrum will be good for the better shops and no-where is far away in the Dam. The rip off joints and those with inferior weed that relocate will wither on the vine as locals will shun them and the 18 year old chavs cant find them or rather they will just patronise the other surviving shops making them off limits to a lot of us. It could be a good thing.

To a degree, i share your optimism. Of course, the argument of closure has a huge whiff of ' strawman ' about it . For a nation that supposedly has one of the lesser cannabis consumption rates in Europe , i find it bizarre that the closing of any shop within a ' radius ' would prove to have any marked difference to its children or its society in general . From what i can garner, over years of visits and protracted stays, Dutch kids have a fairly healthy ambivalence and disinterest in dope.

[spidergawd]

Get a grip. Soft old cow.

I have done now , It's this Pandora mate, gets me loved-up .

[Sailor59]

Get a grip. Soft old cow.

I have done now , It's this Pandora mate, gets me loved-up .

Have to grow and bake her a cake.

[Uncle Ron]

Can't find a link but think I read that the owner of Noon? said they could try to buy the school nearest them & close it if needed

For real ? So the education of children, in the eyes of some business owning fuckwit , is deemed as potentially disposable if it allows him to continue to sell soft drugs from his premises ? Imagine the uproar if any of the big chains mooted such a self serving proposal. What a huge cunt .

No, the education of "children" is not disposable. Relax...
I invite you to do some light reading as to what the Dutch Government considers a school, and I'm not talking about the obvious Kinder Garden.
Fuckwit... huge cunt...? Relax, roll up a fatty, do some light reading, maybe feel a little , then move on... most of us already have.
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[billyriz]

Mellow Yellow? Is there no respect for such an important pioneer of cannabis history? That can't be moved for the love of God.

Was it Mellow Yellow or Bulldog as the first coffeeshop?

Mellow Yellow Tea house was the first coffeeshop,
the bulldog followed in 1975 but claim they are the first cs because they was the first with a license

[treetop]

I took a screen shot of the list for shops within 250 meters of schools

Wasn't there a move to have all coffeeshops closed in a 500 meter radius of what the Dutch Government consider a school?

That would have been much worse. This appears to be a compromise leaving both sides unhappy. Usually the sign of a good one.

[Quazer]

Bad news indeed. Something is odd about this list though... does the rule only apply for the center area, plus not for elementary schools? I know of a few shops which are in close distance of an elementary school. The shops are not on the list.

edit: Think I got it now. It's not about younger kids who would'nt be able to buy anyways. Still makes little to no sense imo.

[gronin]

Hmm.. dare I suggest this is strictly a local issue for Amsterdammers only. The wietpass was a tourist issue but this isn't.

For tourists to wade in is much like the Dutch holding forth on US gun control - not their issue.

Let's be honest - I've been to Ams many many times over the last 20 odd years. I do wonder just how they tolerate the droves of caned tourists. I'm a Londoner and struggle with the sober ones...

[treetop]

Hmm.. dare I suggest this is strictly a local issue for Amsterdammers only. The wietpass was a tourist issue but this isn't.

For tourists to wade in is much like the Dutch holding forth on US gun control - not their issue.

Let's be honest - I've been to Ams many many times over the last 20 odd years. I do wonder just how they tolerate the droves of caned tourists. I'm a Londoner and struggle with the sober ones...

Amsterdammers tolerate caned tourists by ripping them off at every opportunity. They do well out of tourism.

I'm keen on ending this view of stoners as somehow being undesirable or second class citizens cos they smoke weed.. This is so much BS. For a start stoners are quiet and non confrontational on the whole. Much better than drunks, a lot less messy too. How many stoner fights have you ever seen?

Reading the trip reports on here I read about a lot of euros being pumped into the Dutch economy by stoners. Guess what. The people in this forum are just a drop in the ocean of stoners coming to amsterdam every year and spending large sums on weed,hotel,restaurants, museums, prostitutes, bars nightclubs, attractions, etc, etc.

[gronin]

Amsterdammers tolerate caned tourists by ripping them off at every opportunity. They do well out of tourism.

I'm keen on ending this view of stoners as somehow being undesirable or second class citizens cos they smoke weed.. This is so much BS. For a start stoners are quiet and non confrontational on the whole. Much better than drunks, a lot less messy too. How many stoner fights have you ever seen?

Reading the trip reports on here I read about a lot of euros being pumped into the Dutch economy by stoners. Guess what. The people in this forum are just a drop in the ocean of stoners coming to amsterdam every year and spending large sums on weed,hotel,restaurants, museums, prostitutes, bars nightclubs, attractions, etc, etc.

London does well out of tourism too - lord knows they clog up the place. Can't say my income as ever been derived from tourist money in my 30 years working in London. I'm sure some Amsterdammers make money that way but imagine most don't. Think of all those shiny modern office buildings around the ring road - looks like a lot of people might work in those. GVB, NS, Albert Heijn, Hema employees etc wouldn't have suffered if the wietpass has come to pass. Most tourists to London never leave zone 1 and I wonder how many tourists ever get outside of the Grachtengordel.

I too have never seen stoners fight - seen em get robbed . What I have seen are tourists getting belligerent in bars, the Post Office even banks... along the line of 'WTF I can't smoke here - it's the Dam..!' But that is just my fellow Brits TBH.

Can't say I've noticed being ripped-off in 30 odd trips - the old 'you split my cocaine' scams not withstanding. I'm not saying that stoners are second class anything. I smoke but wouldn't just define myself as a stoner - I do other things too. Just making the point that as I find tourists in London irritating then perhaps stoned tourists (on bicycles even) might be more irritating. Maybe they're not - the Amsterdammers have a very different outlook to us grumpy Londoners and that's why I love the place. As locals have said to me more than once - 'London is a city, Amsterdam is a village'.

XXX is the city symbol. A few tourists seem to treat it as a motto.

[Uncle Ron]

Hmm.. dare I suggest this is strictly a local issue for Amsterdammers only. The wietpass was a tourist issue but this isn't.
For tourists to wade in is much like the Dutch holding forth on US gun control - not their issue.
Let's be honest - I've been to Ams many many times over the last 20 odd years. I do wonder just how they tolerate the droves of caned tourists. I'm a Londoner and struggle with the sober ones...

Dare I suggest this is a national issue? Yes, because it's a FEDERAL LAW - no coffee shops within 250 (2011)/350 (2014) meters of a school throughout the entire country.
C/S's already have been closed because of this law, it's just now being implemented with purpose within the city ring of Amsterdam.

Does anyone do any light reading anymore?
Come on folks, educate yourselves...
http://www.youthpolicy.nl/yp/Youth-Poli ... rug-policy
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