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Fundada en 1975 en una antigua sex-shop, The Bulldog Coffeeshop se convirtió en el primer establecimiento que vendía cannabis en Holanda.
Su nombre lo recibe por el perro del fundador, y es el coffeeshop con más nombre en Ámsterdam, destacando por su ambiente y música.
A pretty little middle-class coffee shop which has recently opened on Chatsworth Road, an odd sight in that area but no less welcome for it. Nice coffees and pastries, too.
Address: 55 Chatsworth Road.
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Good old friends from Holland, that I use to live ten years a go... Ammar took this photo without now too much about photography and focusing system, but he got the point, smoke is all about...
Business sign mural made in 2004. Meeting place for upcoming photo walk. www.meetup.com/PhiladelphiaPhotoLeague/events/221534874/
Coffeeshops are establishments in the Netherlands where the sale of cannabis for personal consumption by the public is tolerated by the local authorities (in Dutch called gedoogbeleid).
Under the drug policy of the Netherlands, the sale of cannabis products in small quantities is allowed by 'licensed' coffee shops. The majority of these "coffeeshops" (in Dutch written as one word) also serve drinks and food. Coffeeshops are not allowed to serve alcohol (although in the past some coffeeshops in central Amsterdam have transgressed this law without reproach)[citation needed] or other drugs, and risk closure if they are found to be selling soft drugs to minors, hard drugs or selling alcohol without a license. The idea of coffeeshops was introduced in the 1970s for the explicit purpose of keeping hard and soft drugs separated.
In the Netherlands, 105 of the 443 municipalities have at least one coffeeshop. Many at the borders sell mostly to foreigners (mostly from Belgium, Germany and France), who can also buy marijuana in their own countries, but prefer the legality and higher product quality of Dutch coffeeshops. In May 2011 the Dutch confirmed plans to ban foreigners from patronizing coffee shops, and to roll out the policy in the southern provinces of Limburg, Noord Brabant and Zeeland by the end of 2011 and the rest of the country in 2012. Coffeeshops become members-only clubs, while only adults living in the Netherlands can become a member.
Dutch coffee houses not serving marijuana are called koffiehuis (literally "coffee house"), while a café is the equivalent of a bar.
Whilst sipping a beer outside at a café, I suddenly spotted our reflection in a mirror inside The Doors’ coffeeshop… on the other side of the canal!! ;-)
The Old Church Coffeeshop
Amstel
Amsterdam
The photographs in this album were taken during research visits to Amsterdam, 2017-18. This is not a complete or planned collection, but rather, a selection of random shots which were taken when I noticed coffeeshops on my travels around the city.
For information on the project itself, see the website dedicated to the book:
Classic corner coffeeshop in classic corner building. Had time to grab a drink March 1 before taking what was probably my last Metra trip for a long time...