Amsterdam

[firestorm]

I am going to Amsterdam this weekend and have not been there for 3 years since the smoking ban as come in.
So how do you go about in the coffee shops?
Being English i put tobacco with my joint, is this now banned ?
If so what the most common way round it over there i dont mind smoking pure green but the wife will and the other couples will not be to impressed with the mess on the floor that was once me

[Grizz]

wow, that never dawned on me before. how ~~~~ed up is that, the authorities can turn a blind eye to the bud and do you for putting tobacco in it. the world has finally gone nutz

[cablefreejunkie]

wouldnt worry too much,i was there last year working and went into various coffee shops and smoked joints with tobacco with no probs at all,in fact it didnt seem any different from when i was there 10 years ago,,saying that its probably best to politely ask if its ok,some might not want you to

[pimpnutz]

Most coffee shops now have their selling area's seperate from smoking rooms so smoking with tobbacco is permitted. I am a regular to 'Dam as the smoke over here is shite, and i have never had a prob using tobbacco with my weed. Most coffee shops will also have tobbacco substitutes available for users free of charge.

All thats left to say is, Enjoy!!!!

[dctyper]

they have tobacco supstitutes in pots around the cafes

the netherlands have lifted the smoking ban anyway

dc

[Grizz]

Good on the Dutch!!

Dutch smoking ban reversed for small pubs
The Netherlands has become the first European country to overturn an unpopular smoking ban imposed on the nation?s bars and caf?s two years ago.
The Dutch government banned smoking in restaurants, pubs and caf?s in July 2008 Photo: AP
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels 11:19AM GMT 04 Nov 2010

The authorities are to amend legislation to allow smokers to light up again in small owner-operated bars, called pubs by the Dutch, which are less than 753.5 sq ft in size and which have no other staff.

Bowing to resistance and claims that the ban was driving small Dutch pubs out of business, an incoming coalition government has also cancelled 280 fines levied during a campaign of civil disobedience by smokers and bar-owners.

The relaxation of the smoking ban will cover more than 2,000 bars, many of which had been in open defiance of a prohibition that Dutch people thought went against the grain of their country?s liberal reputation.

Wiel Maessen, the leader of an anti-ban protest group representing 1,250 small bars, said: ?I lit an extra cigarette when I heard the news. But the fight will not be over until the ban is lifted for all pubs.?

Edith Schippers, the Dutch health minister, promised that bitterly resented smoking checks in pubs by food and consumer safety inspectors would end.

?The new law will allow consumer choice. A sign will inform customers whether or not they are allowed to smoke on the premises,? she said.

Clean Air Netherlands, a public health lobbying group backed by the Dutch medical associations, has launched a campaign to reinstate the ban.

Dutch smoking ban reversed for small pubs - Telegraph

[firestorm]

it great to see the dutch using a bit of common