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A coffeeshop in Utrecht. In the Netherlands, coffeeshops are a type of cannabis retail outlet, establishments where the sale of cannabis for personal consumption by the public is tolerated by the local authorities. [ 1] Under the drug policy of the Netherlands, the sale of cannabis products in small quantities is allowed by licensed coffeeshops.
49531074. The Coffee Trader is a historical novel by David Liss, set in 17th-century Amsterdam. The story revolves around the activities of commodity trader Miguel Lienzo, who is a Jewish refugee from the Portuguese Inquisition. Recovering from near financial ruin, he embarks on a coffee trading scheme with a Dutch woman, kept secret because it ...
The Bulldog is an Amsterdam -based company that owns and operates a chain of cannabis coffee shops, hotels, cafés and brand stores located in Amsterdam and Canada. [ 1] The Bulldog has its own merchandising brand consisting of clothing, souvenirs and smoking accessories. The group logo consists of a cartoon figure of a bulldog on a round frame.
A free ferry ride away from Centraal Station is the A’dam Toren, a music-themed 22-storey multi-use building in which to eat, drink, party and sleep. It’s for daredevils too: the rooftop bar ...
History. The cannabis coffeeshop was founded in 1972 by the hippie Wernard Bruining and friends in a squatted former bakery on Weesperzijde, Amsterdam. [ 1] He called it a teahouse, inspired by 1920s and 1930s cannabis cafes in the United States. [ 1] The shop was named after "Mellow Yellow", a song by the Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan ...
TAMPEP, founded in 1993, based in Amsterdam and hosted from Helsinki, calls itself the "European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers". [42] The Red Umbrella Fund (RUF) was founded in 2012 as an Amsterdam-based fund making grants to sex workers' rights groups worldwide. [43]
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Prohibition. Cannabis was first criminalised in the Netherlands in 1953, following earlier laws against its import and export in 1928. [ 1] Cannabis was banned much earlier in the Dutch colony of Suriname, in the early part of the 20th century, [ 2] and in Dutch Indonesia in 1927. [ 3]