I think most of the unruly behaviour involves booze, not weed. Temple Bar on a Saturday night is worse than Amsterdam and that is fueled totally by alcohol consumed by pissed-up assholes. Not a stoner in sight. I’m off to visit The Dam for the final time before it becomes just another bland city. See you in The Last Waterhole !

Well I suppose no matter where u go in the world if ur gonna score drugs ull get em and thats that

This is what happens when you vote for conservative governments. Decision-making based on fear and misguided morality. What else would you expect from a political ideology that essentially has ‘concerned parents’ as one of their biggest lobby groups.
Anyway the Dutch have an uncanny knack of bending laws especially when it comes to drug policy. They are light years ahead in their mature approach to these matters and they refer to their unique approach as ‘gedoogbeleid’ in Dutch. This new policy simply will not work. There’s no way a coffeeshop owners will turn away tourist business. They tried to ban tobacco smoke a few years ago in coffeeshops and it didn’t work either.

I live in Texas and they just killed any reason for me to EVER visit Amsterdam. All those pot tourist also eat and sleep. I guess you can make it up with tax dollars from your residents.

Ireland could solve their debt problems if they became the new Amsterdam.

Totally agree that it will kill the tourist trade in Amsterdam. Drink related activity is far worse than some happy dude stoned. I think this will be reversed or in fact never cone in to jaw.

Perhaps it is just a publicity stunt to increase tourism this year to Amsterdam. If it is – hey it will work.

You get offered more drugs on the bridges,in the dam from un regulated dealers,then they offer in the coffee shops,but you can get around this,by booking into an apartment,rather then a hotel

The dam changed when they banned lighting up in public – cafes went backwards, smoky dark dirty little rooms save for a few exceptions

Shame, Vancouver is so far away :(

Short sighted. You lose a lot of tourists that way.

Watch the Dutch reverse this uber quick when they lose the tourist revenue! Gedoogbeleid en geld maken will be back in so fast it will make your head spin!

Well. . . . . There goes their tourist trade

Well, I’ll be a Dutchman!

I don’t understand all these comments proclaiming this as “political correctness gone mad” It’s got nothing to do with political correctness.

Jeeez, Life has few pleasures without this falling to the PC Police too….

Political correctness gone mad. Earlier this week I saw New York imposed an outdoor smoking ban. Wonder what’s next, a licence to breathe air perhaps …

Long overdue.

why are they so worried about the cannabis and coffee shops in holland if they are worried about having to police areas like amsterdam and creating troublesome spots in there country they should be looking into all the nightclubs the prostitution (i also believe it should stay legal) and perhaps look into all the head shops selling foreign hard drugs and products like liquid ecstacy and the drunken antics and drunken arrests and drunken fights and everything else that comes along with alcohol ive been to amsterdam i know who and what causes the trouble over there cannabis is part of what keeps them wealthy its their main tourist attraction but ofcourse policing the streets and keeping crime down isnt the governments agenda here its all asbout critisizing cannabis because their scare of how openly accepted and popular it has become this is just another way of trying to get rid of cannabis theirs no relation between the 2 topics just really rich people afraid to lose a bit of their money >:(

Good!