Dutch nitpick: "Dampkring" isn't "Smoke Ring", it means "atmosphere". If you translate the two words separate it literally is moisture ring rather than smoke ring.
Not a world capital of the stuff exactly but, due to slow-rolled legalization, New York City is having a gray market boom right now - there's some sort of tacit 'they can't catch all of us at once' strategy going on, there's a bazillion illegal (yet formalized) cannabis vendors springing up all over the place into every available empty storefront. You can also find them at farmer's markets, concerts, outside movie theaters, etc.
Most of the gray market is just surplus California pot (it is the cheapest, after all) but if you go to one of the very few legal dispensaries in the city you can buy New York (State) grown cannabis which is pretty neat.
This depressing account just made me wish the author could enjoy Amsterdam instead of work in that miserable coffee shop. Try a museum, visit a castle, take a boat ride, have some world class omelette. Like most other places, visiting Amsterdam is what you make it to be.
I sometimes work in Amsterdam. It's near my house. I hate tourists in Amsterdam. They clearly come to my capital for the wrong things. Plus they only visit the capitol; there are so many nice cities in the Netherlands to visit, some are even more beautiful than Amsterdam. To cater to the tourists the city also changed for the worst.
I only had two days to spend in the Netherlands with my family a few months ago, so we went to Amsterdam. I’ve never smoked so much as a puff of marijuana in my life, but I’m still glad I went. I was a bit put off by the prevalence of the whole weed culture thing, but it was a really cool town with some really nice museums and parks.
Probably the thing I found most interesting about Amsterdam was it was the only place in the world I’ve ever seen dedicated traffic lanes for five distinct modes of transportation on one single street—pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trains, and boats.
I wonder whether that might explain a number of incidents where I've been treated very very rudely when I've visited Amsterdam or Rotterdam, even when I'm not "one of those toursists".
I'd rather they stay in Amsterdam. A few tourists, a bit more in summer, fine, but the droves that Amsterdam attracts, no. Complain to your city council. They're the ones driving the Amsterdam and Holland tourism campaigns.
The wrong things? A visit to the Museumplein, looking into the Beguinhof, shopping, dining at restaurants? Perhaps you can post a list of the right things.
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It’s amazing place full of art, history, culture, music - and if you know where to find it - great food.
Dampkring is fairly low on my coffeeshop list
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Most of the gray market is just surplus California pot (it is the cheapest, after all) but if you go to one of the very few legal dispensaries in the city you can buy New York (State) grown cannabis which is pretty neat.
By number of legal licenses?
Where the new hot strains are bred?
Where the bags for the new hot strains are made?
different answer to every question.
Pun not intended.
Probably the thing I found most interesting about Amsterdam was it was the only place in the world I’ve ever seen dedicated traffic lanes for five distinct modes of transportation on one single street—pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trains, and boats.
I wonder whether that might explain a number of incidents where I've been treated very very rudely when I've visited Amsterdam or Rotterdam, even when I'm not "one of those toursists".
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