It is common knowledge throughout the world that in Amsterdam you may enter a coffee shop and buy soft drugs. What is more – you will be handed a menu with drugs of the day, and there might be even a special on the menu. It is all accessible - for four joints you will pay the same price as for twenty cigarettes. Nobody will arrest you, because it is legal. So what kind of laws are these? Aren’t the Dutch concerned about the real dangers of drug abuse? Amsterdam drug laws evolved the same way as laws in other countries during the past century, but the solutions taken in the Netherlands, differ from the rest of the world. For up-to-date news on the status of Amsterdam drug laws and other related issues, check out our Amsterdam Coffee Shop News 2014.
Dutch drug laws