Will you still go to Amsterdam?

SheroN · 19-06-2008 09:36AM

I bet they'll turn a blind eye to it in coffee shops.

Steve_o · 19-06-2008 09:38AM

SheroN wrote: »

I bet they'll turn a blind eye to it in coffee shops.

Perhaps, i'd say they just add smoking areas out the back of coffee shops anyway, so it'll be the same as it always was, just out the back!!

Irishcrx · 19-06-2008 09:42AM

I'm just back from Amsterdam and it is a wonderfull city, the smoking ban will only barely effect the coffee shops, you can smoke in them they are just not allowed serve you at the table anymore you have to go get the staff at the counter in the no smoking area and the main parts will be smoking area's , they knew dam well how bad the ban could effect them. The pubs will be the same as here no smoking...but as for joints in coffee shops it'll be business as usual.

Beruthiel · 19-06-2008 09:51AM

Lots of coffee shops have terraces...
Pas panic.

Zzippy · 19-06-2008 10:12AM

ShoulderChip wrote: »

bloody hell i said this in the opening post.
it also says this in the article i linked too, why would you just post on a thread without reading it?

ShoulderChip wrote: »

i have no idea, you probably did, if you did it was bullshit, don't understand why you commented that line,
too lazy to read the article i guess.

ShoulderChip wrote: »

see post #12

Whoa, chill out there man, maybe smoke some of that weed you're on about!

Appropriate username btw...

ScumLord · 19-06-2008 10:28AM

ShoulderChip wrote: »

bloody hell i said this in the opening post.
it also says this in the article i linked too, why would you just post on a thread without reading it?

I don't know, I guess it just makes me happy when the poster gets upset about little things like that.

I vaguely remember one of the coffeeshop dudes laughing that now the Locals (who dislike the coffeeshops) will have to come to a coffeeshop if they want to enjoy a cigarette with their morning coffee. So maybe coffeeshops are completely exempt.

I think another trip to Amsterdam is in order to find out the truth. Boards smoke up in Amsterdam?

stovelid · 19-06-2008 10:35AM

Is smoking the only reason a lot of people go to Amsterdam?

The Master · 19-06-2008 10:35AM

As long as I can still get a rusty trombone when I'm there I'll continue to visit Amsterdam

jester77 · 19-06-2008 11:00AM

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I am going in 2 weeks. Not too bothered really as smoking was the last thing on my mind.

You dirty man

rubadub · 22-06-2008 02:47PM

Spastafarian wrote: »

Actually smoking pure marijuana is much worse for you than smoking a mix of tobacco and marijuana.

That is some strange logic you came up with. So if I have 0.2g of cannabis it is better for me to inhale the burning smoke of this combined with burning smoke of tobacco? Rather than just have the 0.2g on its own?

The usual crap trotted out is comparing unfiltered cannabis cigarettes with commercial filtered and treated cigarettes, and when doing so ignoring the massive difference in typical daily dosage. Faulty logic. Just like the other BS faulty logic saying cannabis is 20 times stronger than it was in the 60's, and so much worse for you. Ehhh users just would smoke 1/20th the amount (if it was true) and so would have around 1/20th the exposure of smoke to their lungs, so it is far better for you to smoke pure high grade cannabis. People do not drink 10pints of beer a night, then switch to whiskey and still down 10 pints! ludicrous arguments.

Of course they will turn a blind eye. FFS cannabis is not technically legal in holland as it is! they have turned a blind eye to smoking it in coffeeshops so I expect the same will be true of tobacco.

Sherifu · 22-06-2008 03:11PM

Wertz wrote: »

I'll eat the f*ckin' stuff if I have to...

Where there's a will

KnifeWRENCH · 22-06-2008 03:28PM

Plenty of stuff in Amsterdam other than drugs and hoors y'know.
What about the Van Gogh museum? The beautiful canals? All the clogs, windmills, tulips and other pleasant stereotypes? Well??

*awaits sarcastic responses*

Wertz · 22-06-2008 04:02PM

square_igloo wrote: »

Plenty of stuff in Amsterdam other than drugs and hoors y'know.
What about the Van Gogh museum? The beautiful canals? All the clogs, windmills, tulips and other pleasant stereotypes? Well??

*awaits sarcastic responses*

Seen 'em all, museums, galleries, breweries, Anne Frank's house...all the tourist-y stuff...it's the former two that keep you coming back. Nothing sarcastic about that...just the reality of it...

Toots · 22-06-2008 04:41PM

Rb wrote: »

"I'm from the Government, I just have to have a few tokes on that joint of yours to make sure it's tobacco free...ohh yeaahhh"

I think it's time I change career!!

Super Sidious · 22-06-2008 06:23PM

I remember being on a boat from Krabi to Koh Tao in Thailand last year (also known for its hookers and weed,although neither legal...) and some dutch guy telling us that any 'cafes' within a mile of a school would have to close.

Couldnt believe it, we thought he was winding us up, Amsterdam without weed & hookers... like coppers without the Guards or Nurses... just wont be the same!

Guy:Incognito · 22-06-2008 06:32PM

Oh the humanity of making people go outside to smoke their joints. Wont somebody please think of the children.

orestes · 22-06-2008 06:32PM

I was talking to a Dutch guy about this recently. He said that the cafes are all just being redesignated as members only cigar clubs because cigar clubs are exempt from the ban or something like that, but they are planning on just handing out membership cards to anyone on their way in. Not sure how true it is but sounds like a pretty clever idea

JC 2K3 · 22-06-2008 07:08PM

Spastafarian wrote: »

Actually smoking pure marijuana is much worse for you than smoking a mix of tobacco and marijuana. With the exception of herbal cigarettes, tobacco is about the safest thing you can smoke.

LMAO.

I'm heading there in August. This doesn't really seem like a big deal.

Kold · 22-06-2008 07:20PM

Heading there on Wednesday. Happy happy

Gonna see Radiohead there too wewt.

Nightwish · 22-06-2008 09:27PM

I LOVE Amsterdam, and I dont care whatsoever about the smoking ban. I have no interest in their cafe's so that doesnt bother me, but it'll make the bars smoke free then I'm all for it.

22-06-2008 10:55PM

If there's one thing I hate its people who go over to Amsterdam just for the drugs. And these people typically will never ever leave their bedrooms and/or cafes. Amsterdam is a beautiful city. I hope to go there again soon.

Stephen90 · 22-06-2008 11:18PM

Was in Amsterdam in May, gorgeous city. 6 of us went over and spent most of our afternoons moderately but pleasantly stoned after our regular wake n' bakes down at the Grasshopper. Strolled about for hours and miles and saw the city in a lovely laid back manner. A mate who was with us is a mad photography head and started photographing everything, so we went to the Van Gogh museum. I advise this to anybody who goes to Amsterdam. I'm not into art per sé but after a morning of smoking and a accompanied by a nice bunch a mates on a chilled buzz, go and see it. Some really beautiful stuff in there.

Re: smoking ban, I dont think the whole thing is gonna cause too much of a ruckos over there at all. We went into a cafe called Hill St. Blues the first morning we were there (awesome place) but sadly after sampling the best weed in Europe all morning sadly I was a little over-baked to really ride the vibe... However when we were talking to the guy who worked there as we were buying our grass, he told us about the law which had recently been passed making the sale of mushrooms illegal in the city. It was my friend who brought it up actually, but the guy laughed and waved his hand in a fashion that suggested he was thinking ''Oh hahaha! THAT law! haha you can buy them everywhere lads!!'' ...

I propose this will be the attitude adopted by many of the Dutch towards the new smoking laws...

FunkZ · 23-06-2008 01:23AM

I will indeed still go, I always planned on smoking it without tabac there anyway. And I can still get the mushies and hookers!

xOxSinéadxOx · 23-06-2008 01:47AM

waited an hour in the pissing rain to go into the van gogh museum :mad:

FunkZ · 23-06-2008 01:52AM

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

waited an hour in the pissing rain to go into the van gogh museum :mad:

You must have been sooo baked?

TheBigLebowski · 23-06-2008 02:02AM

flynner13 wrote: »

I remember being on a boat from Krabi to Koh Tao in Thailand last year

That must have taken a while...

Super Sidious · 23-06-2008 02:55AM

TheBigLebowski wrote: »

That must have taken a while...

Well surat Thani, or wherever the boat goes from...

flanum · 23-06-2008 03:07AM

this thread is ..................

infanticide ftw!

Shulgin · 27-06-2008 10:10PM

I have never been, but don`t a lot of the cafes have vapourizers? Smoke isn`t an issue down that route.

Volcanos FTW.

http://www.storz-bickel.com/vaporiser/vaporiser.html

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV · 27-06-2008 10:48PM

i lived there last year, love the place, its not all about the weed and whores although they do make the place cooler, but its a beautiful city, you will never meet more interesting/cool/friendlier people than when in dam!

Will you still go to Amsterdam?

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