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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
 Soon smartshops, of which there are many in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, will not be allowed to sell fresh magic mushrooms anymore. The Netherlands will ban the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms, the government announced, tightening the country's famed liberal drug policies after the suicide of an intoxicated teenage girl.
The ban, in response to the death and other highly publicized adverse reactions involving the fungus, is the latest backlash against the freewheeling policies of the past.
Psilocybin, the main active chemical in the mushrooms, has been illegal under international law since 1971. However, fresh mushrooms continued to be sold legally in the Netherlands along with herbal medicines in so-called smart-shops. |
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 |
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 No-one seems to know just how many red light district windows there are in Amsterdam, the Volkskrant reported at the weekend.
Even Charles Geerts, the sex industry boss who sold 18 of his properties to a housing corporation does not seem to know how many there are.
Geerts told reporters on Friday there are 250 windows and that the sale of his 18 buildings means the loss of 51, or 20%. The day before Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen spoke of 51 windows being one third of the total. |
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
 The city of Amsterdam is to close 51 of the window brothels in its famous red light district. This is about one-third of the total.
The city has reached a 25m euro deal to buy many of the premises and turn them into shops or housing.
The mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, said that although prostitution was legal in the Netherlands, there was too much of the sex trade in the city centre.
He also said that the trade involved exploitation and trafficking of women, and other kinds of criminal activity. |
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Friday, 14 September 2007 |
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 The municipality of Amsterdam wants to work with large investors to buy up more of the buildings in the red light district so as to combat crime and deterioration.
The city has its eye mainly on prostitution businesses and coffeeshops.
Together with NV Stadsgoed of housing corporation Het Oosten Amsterdam has already acquired 83 buildings in the notorious neighbourhood.
"We plan to continue this on a larger scale," alderman Lodewijk Asscher (economic affairs) said on Thursday. "We are in talks with large investors who can develop new investment plans for the inner city under the direction of the municipality." |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
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 September is the month to visit Amsterdam with the many events and exhibitions that take place during "Amsterdam Design '07".
If you would you like to know everything about design, meet up with one of our Amsterdam designers to discover the essentials, hidden treasures, and hot new talents of the world renowned "Dutch Design". For festival lovers, join the Jordaan Festival on 15 and 16 September and sing along with typical Dutch ballads called "levensliederen." |
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