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Amsterdam coffee shop

amsterdam coffee shopAmsterdam coffee shops are a favorite hangout for tourist. The most important product of a coffee shop in Amsterdam is not coffee but cannabis. And since Holland is one of the few places where this is sold legally the coffee shops attract many tourist.

A group of teenage English boys, their polite manners contrasting with the hair-raising heavy metal designs on their T-shirts, is also drinking the warm, frothy brew. Above them a large flat screen TV is showing a documentary about Antarctic bird life.

A penguin protects her chicks from a hungry gull as two Spanish girls debate whether to get high on "White Widow," "Blueberry" — brands from the marijuana menu — or to take a slice of the peanut butter and white chocolate weed-laced "space cake."

From inside this cozy, 100-year-old-bar-turned-hash-house it appears the Amsterdam drug scene has mellowed since the Dutch government began to "decriminalize" cannabis in the late 1970s.

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