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All the coffeeshops face a unique problem which only effects the Netherlands as they are the only country to allow coffeeshops.

Under the new European smoking ban which includes coffeeshops: Customers can still light up pure cannabis joints but can not if mixed with the killer tobacco.

The government have hired 200 smoke detectives to police the smoking ban in coffee shops. They say they have been trained to smell the difference between cannabis and tobacco

If you are caught you will be placed up against the wall and shot without any trial, but most have gotten away with a warning. (joke)

So far so good nothing has changed, but we think not for long as they will start to enforce it soon, we fear the worst.

Come recent Headlines

Dutch ban smoking tobacco - but rules on marijuana are still hazy

This is true, no one knows what will happen, our friends who own a coffeeshop have made no move to change anything, They say they have NO employees so they are Ok, so they say. But the law says different. So we will see.

Dutch marijuana coffee shops brace for smoking ban

Things do not look good, some coffeeshops will be more effected than others, bigger ones can build smoking rooms inside the shop. Ban also covers ash trays, No ashtray allowed outside on terrace tables or to be fitted to the outside of any premises.

Dutch smoking ban: No tobacco in your joints, cafes ordered

I cannot imagine them asking you to rip apart your joint to make sure there is no tobacco in it. Crazy times ahead I guess.

Buzz kill: Smoking ban hits Amsterdam's marijuana coffee shops

People will be bringing in tobacco in crisps packets and chewing gum wrapper and the like. Remember the USA during the alcohol ban , people Carry little flasks with them.

Amsterdammers choke on new smoking laws

With locals and tourists a like having to smoke non tobacco joints, the amount of coughing and choking has increased, " Nearly all our customers are now coughing up their guts, it cannot be good for you all that coughing, only the Americans are used to it'".

Amsterdam cafes go to pot amid tobacco ban

NO Tobacco allowed on the premises - Sign of the times we live in.

Joints 'must be tobacco free' or else........

We have leaflets for customers warning them of the dangers of being caught with tobacco in any joint on the premises.

while coffee shop owners handed out leaflets outlining the new rules of consumption and suggesting tobacco substitutes like a mix of herbs. "Many cultures don't smoke cannabis with tobacco but most Europeans do mix cannabis with tobacco.

MORE NEWS ON SMOKING BAN AS WE GET IT

July 20th

Hill Street Blues coffeeshop on Nieuwmarkt have a sign requesting all customers "Before sealing your joints please to get a member of staff to check it to make sure it's tobacco free.

Aug 1st

Nothing new to report on the smoking ban.

All coffeeshops busy as usual

Aug 31st

Was in my local coffeeshop today and a customer went to smoke a cigarette and the assistant yelled at him "stop" .

But people are still rolling with tobacco but the clever ones do not broadcast the fact by leaving a cigarette packet on table. Remember it's legal to smoke drugs but illegal to smoke tobacco. How the tables have turned.

November 11th 2008

LATEST NEWS - NOVEMBER 2008, HOT OF THE PRESS.

it's reported in The Amsterdam Times newspaper this week

Magic Mushrooms will be banned from December 1st 2008.

it's official, no more magic mushrooms after December 1st 2008. So it's finally happened, the ban will be enforced from December 1st.

Bye bye mushrooms, nice knowing you.

Dope tourists a nuisance

Dutch mayors are to get together this week in a bid to come up with ideas to kill or at least clamp down on the nuisance they say is being caused by the millions of foreign tourists (16 million day tourists alone) drawn to the country's cannabis coffee shops which sell up to five grams of cannabis or hash to anyone over eighteen years old.

The gathering of municipal leaders, organised by the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) in Almere, north-east of Amsterdam, was arranged to compile a list of "sticking points" which would be given to the ministries of health, justice and internal affairs. "Border communities are increasingly contending with drug tourism and the nuisance associated therewith," the association said in a statement.

The talk is the government want to close ALL coffeeshops before 2010 by withdrawing their licence's like they did in red-light district recently. Just closed down half of it over night.

Could this be the end of wonderful Amsterdam as we know it.? If the ruling Christian democratic CDA party has their way it will be.

It's always the same with these types, ruin the fun for everyone should be the party motto. Cannot understand the people voting theses pricks in (twice).

Party's over, last one out turn off the lights!