Rastadam, Exposing Amsterdam’s Cannibis Tours
October 15, 2007
Amsterdam City Tours hosts a unique cultural tour; The Cannabis City Tour. This green tour leads small groups of 4 -10 tourists to various “coffeeshops”. In Amsterdam, a “coffeeshop” is a place where cannabis is openly sold and smoked.
According to Wikipedia:
“In the Netherlands, the selling of cannabis is “illegal, but not punishable”, so the law is not enforced in establishments following these nationwide rules:
- no advertising
- no hard drug sales on the premises
- no sales to minors (people under the age of 18)
- no sales transactions exceeding a quantity threshold (5 grams)
- no public disturbances
Coffeeshops are obliged to register each sale, some maintain a database of customers complete with ID cards. Such measures allow the police to closely monitor their adherence to the above restrictions.”
So be sure to bring an ID card, you may need to present it.
According to Amsterdam City Tours, there are over 300 coffeeshops that offer several basic flavours: dark rasta, generic touristy, authentic dutch, and cool. The tour will goes behind the scenes of the Amsterdam Coffee shop industry and exposes “client attitudes”, “social reaction patterns” and “current trends in the drug trade”. There is some free time to look around, sample, and ask the “coffeeshop” owner questions. The tour concludes by visiting the Cannabis / Marijuana Museum.
Would you want this type of tour in your town? Do you think that this type of tourism is helping their community? Would you go on this tour?
For more information go to www.amsterdamcitytours.com or you can 
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I’m still trying to figure out the great mystique of Amsterdam.
I’ve tried analyzing it many ways but always come up with: people go there to find a new “high.”
Am I wrong?
I have heard many great things about Amsterdam, but I have only been in the airport… My friends tell me of the liberalized freedom that they feel, and all of my Dutch friends are very open minded. Do you think this openmindedness is what creates the “mystique”?