Amsterdam looking for ways to get around coffe shop ban for tourists

From January 1 tourists will be barred from its famous marijuana-selling coffee shops

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Amsterdam is known for its marijuana-selling coffee shops but from January 1 tourists will be barred from the shops.

It is a ban introduced by last year’s government and now Amsterdam’s mayor wants to get round the law for his city and local shop owner Michael Veling agrees. “The text in the law is very vague, so I thinks it’s completely normal for the mayor say these things.

“Ninety per cent of revenues would be lost if I couldn’t let foreigners in….” Although the two parties forming the Netherlands’ next government do want to allow cities to circumvent the national ban, the ministry of justice has said no as per a report in euronews.

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