6 best places to watch World Cup in Amsterdam and the trainstations

It has started! We have changed our background to orange to support the Dutch and finally the first game has been played. Today will be the day that the Dutch might be able to have at least some revenge on the Spanish team after one of the most frustrating final games ever played in a

Amsterdam Dance Event

If you were planning a trip to Amsterdam soon, then now is the right time! The Amsterdam Dance Event is starting this week and is an event not to be missed! The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the biggest event in Dance music in the Netherlands and brings shitloads of great acts to the city

Marijuana Music

_ Marijuana + Music _ _  two words that sort of automatically made friendship loO(     )(      )(  o  )Ooooóóóóóóng time ago.. seriously, what would marijuana be without music? And what would music have been like or still be like if it wasn’t for the marijuana? The history of marijuana and music took

How to Roll and Smoking Tips

Cannabis smoking rolling tips and tricks There are many different ways to get high on marijuana; you can smoke a regular joint in a paper mixed with some tobacco, or without any tobacco. You can smoke it from a pipe or a vaporizer. You can find some special ways to roll with paper, or build

Amsterdam Coffee Shop Google Map

Coffeeshops Map Amsterdam There are many coffeeshops in Amsterdam, in and outside of the centre. Some of them good, some of them mostly there for tourists. We picked out a few that we know are good. Have a look at our coffeeshops amsterdam page for more info. For all the coffeeshops and their location, we

Amsterdam Coffee Shops

General information Amsterdam Coffeeshops In the Netherlands the law upholds a policy of tolerance when it comes to cannabis usage. This means that any person over the age of 18 can buy up to 5 grams of cannabis in authorized cannabis café’s, or “coffeeshops” as the Dutch call them. The sale, and usage of marijuana

How Marijuana Affects Your Brain

How marijuana affects the brain. We all know that something happens to the brain if you consume cannabis. If you smoke it, eat it, inhale it , drink it, doesn’t matter how, but something changes up there. The effects are not similar for everybody of course. I myself sometimes become one with the couch, while

 

Tourists in the South of the Netherlands

Drug tourism in Maastricht.

Last weekend it was a strange weekend in the South of the Netherlands as the owners of shops in Maastricht had decided to let foreigners in their establishments again. By the local law coffeeshops are not allowed to sell cannabis to people who are not registered as citizens of the Netherlands. But the local coffeeshop owners decided to sell their fine herbs to tourists on Sunday the 5th of may (National Liberation Day) as it seemed an appropriate move to not ban tourists from the shops.

Unfortunately the local government didn’t agree with the action and on Monday at least 3 people got arrested in during a police raid in coffeeshop “Mississippi”, one of the local coffeeshops.

In total 3 different coffeeshops got raided in the last weeks and there will be a court case on the 12th of June. Hopefully the judge will decide the mayor is wrong and foreigners might be welcome in the coffeeshops again after that. Tha mayor of Maastricht, Onno Hoes, does not seem to promise to much hope for coffeeshop owners. For now street dealers are still very much around in Maastricht, selling weed to foreigners, but also to locals.

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We strongly advice tourists to not visit Maastricht for cannabis related reasons at the moment. It is a beautiful city and definitely worth a visit, but be careful with street dealers there. It would be better to travel to a city a bit less South to be able to purchase weed. Maastricht is only 200 kilometers away from Rotterdam and a very nice city as well.
We will try to keep you updated if anything changes to the drug laws in the South of course.