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Amsterdam 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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Amsterdam authorities said on Saturday they would halve the number of brothels and marijuana shops in the city's "red light" district and surrounding area.The city announced plans to clean up the area a year ago and since then 109 sex "windows", from which prostitutes attract customers, have been closed. The new measures aim to reduce the number of windows to 243 from 482 last year, a city spokesman said.
Amsterdam also wants to close half of the 76 cannabis shops in the city centre.
"Money laundering, extortion and human trafficking are things you do not see on the surface but they are hurting people and the city. We want to fight this," says the mayor.
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Amsterdam's Hash museum - or Museum of Hash, Marijuana and Hemp, to give it its full title, is to be found on one of the canals running through the city's red light district. Tourists of all ages and nationalities are drawn to the area by its reputation as a haven of easily accessible sex and drugs.
Sitting at a canal-side cafe, Ken Johnson the Museum's manager - or plant curator as he prefers to be called - warned that although most foreigners think soft drugs are legal in The Netherlands, that's far from the case.
For virtually everyone, except the coffee shops who can have a small amount (but where they get it from is a bit of a legal mystery), and regular users in very small quantities, it's very tightly controlled.
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