No tobacco in your joint please!

Weed, grass, pot, reefer, ganja, hash, shit, Mary Jane, whatever you might wanna call it, but Holland has long been known as a country tolerating the herb's existance in Duth social life. Coffeeshops are just part of the Dutch cultural fibre as nasi goreng stalls are for us.

Yet as from July 1st 2008, coinciding with the tobacco ban in Dutch cafes, bars, clubs and restaurants, punters in coffeeshops will have to either smoke pure weed (Dutch grass is usually mixed with tobacco) or as is the case in some coffeeshops, smoke in a limited smoking area.

Here are a few bad quality mobile phone picks of the post-smoking ban Christmas atmosphere at Rotterdam's Reefer Coffeeshop: