Alternative Tours Of The Netherlands

[thewizeard]

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I have been thinking of organising an alternative tour of the Netherlands..the urban tour..with an itinerary covering all the best "Coffee" shops, "Smart"shops" and other places of interest for the discerning 420 Dudes and Dolls of the Lounge. ..If there is enough interest, of course.. I could even arrange bed and breakfast ...(for the dolls ;) naturally ) :)


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To begin with Middelbvrgvm ...where arguably the best "Coffee" shop in the Netherlands is situated ...

No smart shop here though..have to go to Goes ( a Dutch City) for your paddos ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms )

[Gripper]

Damn if I was single I'd be signing up for that in a heartbeat.

[thewizeard]

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Top left foto..in this collage you will see the old water pump if you walk past it and turn left you will arrive at Coffee Shop ( read Koffieshop) Sixty Two ( currently closed for selling stuff to minors)...which is just across the road from the Magistrate's Court... rara

[100%]

Since most people cant join your "thewizeard's blow your mind sunshine tours", why not simply make a virtual tour?
That place looks nice, but i doubt most stoners will ever find it.

[scholesy]

^^^^^^^
haha...you are absolutely right,there's no way stoners are gonna find that place:P

[snowultra]

holland rules, wish i could go.

[thewizeard]

Since most people cant join your "thewizeard's blow your mind sunshine tours", why not simply make a virtual tour?
That place looks nice, but i doubt most stoners will ever find it.

I am working on that ..:)

For now more pics :)

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We move onto Goes. Goes, like Middelburg, is easy to reach using your private Yacht. You can sail up the canal and park right in the center, which is probably why Goes is so popular with the English 420 ers...

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Within 1 minute you will find coffee shop, "High Life" Close to the now closed Zero-Zero...which was one of the first "Koffie Shops"in the Netherlands

Now Goes has also a great "Smart" shop also within 1 minute from the harbor where you can buy those paddos...

[elitist_fuck]

Within 1 minute you will find coffee shop, "High Life" [/quote]


Hmm.. there's a daft punk song by that name. Coincidence?

[Imagine_If]

It could be, it might even be significant. What the name of the band ? :)

[Gripper]

Hey Wiz post some more piccys of your town and its coffee shops,in my experience Dutch people are some of the coolest,nicest people in the world(one young lady I met was high up in the sexiest)

[thewizeard]

Sounds a good idea Gripper..

[100%]

Bad news...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3i8WhNuWAvHiTGQTt0fPozm5NjwD8S7P4080

Dutch Ban Hallucinogenic Mushroom Sales

By TOBY STERLING – 3 days ago
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands will ban the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms, the government announced Friday, rolling back one element of the country's permissive drug policy after a teenager on a school visit jumped to her death after taking the fungus.
The decision will go into effect within several months, said Wim van der Weegen, a Justice Ministry spokesman.
"The problem with mushrooms is that their effect is unpredictable," he said, and shops caught selling them will be closed.
Marijuana and hashish are technically illegal in the Netherlands, but police do not bother to prosecute people for possession of small amounts, and it is sold openly in designated cafes.
Possession of "hard" drugs like cocaine, LSD and Ecstasy is illegal. Mushrooms will fall somewhere in the middle.
"We're not talking about a non-prosecution policy, but we'll be targeting sellers" Van der Weegen said.
Psilocybin, the main active chemical in the mushrooms, has been illegal under international law since 1971. However, fresh, unprocessed mushrooms continued to be sold legally in the Netherlands along with herbal medicines in so-called "smart-shops," on the theory that it was impossible to determine how much of the naturally occurring substance any given mushroom contains.
Van der Weegen said that was also the reason the system proved unworkable: "It's impossible to estimate what amount will have what effect."
Calls for a re-evaluation arose after Gaelle Caroff, a 17-year-old visiting from France, from a building in Amsterdam in March after eating psychedelic mushrooms.
Caroff's parents blamed their daughter's death on hallucinations brought on by the mushrooms, though the teenager had suffered from psychiatric problems in the past. Photographs of her youthful face were splashed across newspapers around the country.
Since Caroff's death other dramatic stories involving mushrooms have been reported in the Dutch press:
_ A British tourist, 22, ran amok in a hotel, breaking his window and slicing his hand badly.
_ An Icelandic tourist, 19, thought he was being chased and jumped from a balcony, breaking both his legs.
_ A Danish tourist, 29, drove his car wildly through a campground, narrowly missing people sleeping in their tents.
"It's a shame, the media really blew this up into a big issue," said Chloe Collette, owner of the FullMoon smart-shop in Amsterdam.
She said all the incidents had involved the use of multiple drugs — against the advice of sellers — but it was the mushrooms that were blamed.
"Used in the right way, there's no problem with mushrooms: The biggest problem is with alcohol, in my opinion."
Most mushrooms sold in Amsterdam are sold to tourists, and the city's liberal drug policies and legalized prostitution are major tourist attractions.
In May, the country's health minister, Ab Klink, undertook a study of the problems and called for suggestions from the industry and Amsterdam's city government.
Murat Kucuksen, whose farm Procare supplies about half the psychedelic mushrooms on the Dutch market, said he stood to lose several million euros invested in setting up his legal growing facilities.
He predicted the trade will move underground, prices will rise, and dealers will sell dried mushrooms or LSD as a substitute, with no guidance for tourists.
"So you'll have a rise in incidents but they won't be recorded as mushroom-related, and the politicians can declare victory," he said.

[thewizeard]

Jumping from buildings is not one of the intended alternative tours of the Netherlands, this year..If it becomes popular we could add it next year. :O

[Something Else]

Damn. My lovely shrooms :(

[Skweeky]

I found magic mushies on the golfcourse the other day :D

:(

Can't wait to go home and just get them out of the shop though :lol:

Post some pictures of Maastricht, Roosendaal, Catzand, Sluis and Vlissingen please

Thanks

[thewizeard]

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Cadzand....

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Roosendaal Station...

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Sluis...

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Vlissingen...

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ah..here we are in..

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Maastricht!

....aub :)

[Skweeky]

Dankuwel!

Maastricht is nog altijd een van mijn favoriete plaatsen in Nederland!
Groot genoeg, maar tezelfdertijd pittoresk.
De eerste keer dat Gemmell met mij naar Belgie gegaan was, zijn we naar Maastricht geweest.
We zijn toen nog verdwaald geraakt in een boekenwinkel na een halve joint met Jack Haze :huh: