Gypsy, the Christian Government (secular we are not) is trying to phase out Drugs and Prostitution from the Amsterdam imago, and try to become more like Paris, yet we lack a heap of scrap with a fancy name. A rather stupid direction if you ask me as Amsterdam is a tourist destination for particularly THOSE reasons. Many fly over Amsterdam to anywhere in the world and prefer to stay a long weekend in Amsterdam. During day-time they enjoy the authenticity of architecture and Museums, and in the evenings they go wild and stupid. Crime is surprisingly not even that bad and tourists, even if drunk and stoned, behave fairly well, crime-rates are not what they are in many other cities in Europe. They leave, and left behind thousands of Dollars.
The Netherlands has Tulips, Cheese, Milk, Cows, flat landscaping and a unique Red Light District with Hash/Weed and Magic Mushrooms, this is what gave Dutch their globally renowned liberal status. Destroy that, destroy business. The Netherlands is not much of a tourist destination compared to other European countries.
The have recently forbidden the sale of Magic Mushrooms because one French lady killed herself (while she was a psychologically disturbed individual already), which is one incident which can be qualified as 'isolated'. Now forbidden, how stupid is that? I now go to the forest and collect (and/or sell/grow) them myself. Hence, out of control.
Gypsy, the Christian Government (secular we are not) is trying to phase out Drugs and Prostitution from the Amsterdam imago, and try to become more like Paris, yet we lack a heap of scrap with a fancy name. A rather stupid direction if you ask me as Amsterdam is a tourist destination for particularly THOSE reasons. Many fly over Amsterdam to anywhere in the world and prefer to stay a long weekend in Amsterdam. During day-time they enjoy the authenticity of architecture and Museums, and in the evenings they go wild and stupid. Crime is surprisingly not even that bad and tourists, even if drunk and stoned, behave fairly well, crime-rates are not what they are in many other cities in Europe. They leave, and left behind thousands of Dollars.
The Netherlands has Tulips, Cheese, Milk, Cows, flat landscaping and a unique Red Light District with Hash/Weed and Magic Mushrooms, this is what gave Dutch their globally renowned liberal status. Destroy that, destroy business. The Netherlands is not much of a tourist destination compared to other European countries.
The have recently forbidden the sale of Magic Mushrooms because one French lady killed herself (while she was a psychologically disturbed individual already), which is one incident which can be qualified as 'isolated'. Now forbidden, how stupid is that? I now go to the forest and collect (and/or sell/grow) them myself. Hence, out of control.