Coffeeshops for newbies
For those of you who have lived on another planet for the last 20 years: in a Dutch coffeeshop, a cup of coffee is only a side dish... The liberal tolerance policy in the Netherlands enables you to openly smoke hash and to freely grow cannabis plants for personal use. Hard drugs are strictly forbidden at all times!

Weed ban for foreigners?
The increasing number of drug tourists in Holland have unfortunately led to more crime. Therefore the Dutch government plans to introduce a so called weedpass (identity card). With this personal ID-card only Dutch citizens are allowed to buy grass & hash and Germans, Belgians and French would be banned. The initial weedpass implementation was planned in January 2012 in the border area of the Netherlands (province of Limburg (Venlo), Brabant and Zeeland) but was postponed to May 2012.

Coffee shops in Rotterdam
Anyway, the coffeeshops in Rotterdam and Amsterdam and in the other Dutch provinces are not affected by this new legislation. Without concerns, cannabis connoisseurs can freely buy marijuana and cannabis for personal use until June 2015 without concerns, but do not export it! Still, the rules for coffeeshops in Rotterdam are becoming stricter every year.

Price of a joint in the Netherlands
To protect our children, nowadays coffee shops must close their doors if a school is located in the immediate vicinity. That is why the number of good coffeeshops has dramatically dropped in the last few years. In Rotterdam Grass is generally cheaper as in Amsterdam, because the demand of tourists is just slightly lower in Rotterdam. Most coffeeshops are located in the South of Rotterdam. On the streets, there are no fixed prices for soft drugs; coffeeshop owners have a price list. In Rotterdam you pay €3,00 to smoke a joint.