Amsterdam Tourist Information » Bulldog http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl The no-nonsense travel guide to Amsterdam, Holland Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:13:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Amsterdam to close 43 coffeeshops http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/548-amsterdam-closing-coffeeshops http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/548-amsterdam-closing-coffeeshops#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:38:13 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=548

Full article: Amsterdam to close 43 coffeeshops

Coffeeshop Bulldog Amsterdam The City of Amsterdam has announced it will close 43 of its 228 coffeeshops because they are located too close to schools.

In doing so, Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen "reluctantly" follows up a federal government directive to establish 'distance criteria' between schools and coffeeshops.

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