As of April 1, 2007, Dutch coffeeshops can no longer sell alcohol.\u00a0 This covers all coffeeshops that sell cannabis products.\u00a0 Awhile ago Dutch coffeeshop owners who had licenses\u00a0to sell\u00a0both alcohol and marijuana were offered a choice: they could choose to keep one of those licenses.\u00a0 So most dropped the alcohol, although a few decided to stay open as a pub.<\/p>\n
This means you can no longer purchase cannabis,\u00a0smoke it and drink a beer in the same location.\u00a0 Some coffeeshops have already dealt with this by owning a nearby pub where no cannabis is sold, but patrons can buy their ganja nearby and smoke it in the pub.<\/p>\n
It’s a bit hard to understand why this change was necessary, as there were so few problems with those coffeeshops that also sold booze, as they tended to be the most popular and most profitable.\u00a0 Looks like they’ll have far fewer patrons who stick around after a purchase.<\/p>\n
We’re still wondering if they’ll ever enforce the EU’s workplace no smoking laws in Amsterdam Coffeeshops.\u00a0\u00a0Apparently the coffeeshops (and Dutch pubs)\u00a0have been given some kind of exemption for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As of April 1, 2007, Dutch coffeeshops can no longer sell alcohol.\u00a0 This covers all coffeeshops that sell cannabis products.\u00a0 Awhile ago Dutch coffeeshop owners who had licenses\u00a0to sell\u00a0both alcohol and marijuana were offered a choice: they could choose to … Continue reading