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Amsterdam Coffee Shops Closing Has Negative Effects

Posted on: januari 13, 2017
Amsterdam Coffee Shops Closing

Amsterdam Coffee Shops Closing, Not A Good Idea It’s rush hour in Mellow Yellow on the last day of 2016. Italian tourists who just visited the Heineken Experience are crowding around the counter. Coffee shop owner Johnny Petram calmly weighs their order. Mellow Yellow is one of eight coffee shops that were closed in the […]

Interview with Salvation Army in Amsterdam

Posted on: januari 4, 2024

Salvation Army Officer in Amsterdam Amsterdam Red Light District Stories Who are you and what do you do for the Salvation Army? My name is Henny Tinga and I have worked for the Salvation Army in the Red Light District for a very long time, more than 50 years! I have seen a lot and have […]

An Interview With The Owner Of The First Condom Store In Amsterdam

Posted on: januari 1, 2024
Interview Founder Condom Shop in Amsterdam

Interview Founder First Condom Shop In Amsterdam We spoke with Theodore van Boven who is one of the owners of world’s first condom shop which was founded in 1987, on the oldest street of Amsterdam. It was opened in a time when there were more sexual transmitted diseases (STD’s) in the Netherlands and when talking about […]

People Pretend To Be A Prostitute To Get A Free STI Test in the Netherlands

Posted on: november 23, 2016
STD Test in Holland

STD Tests In Holland Are Free When You (Say You) Are A Sex Worker Robbie regularly visits the Dutch Area Health Authority (locally known as Gemeentelijke GezondheidsDienst or GGD abbreviated) to get an STD test in Holland. Every time he makes up a fake story so he doesn’t have to pay. “I don’t feel like paying 90 […]

Street Prostitution in Holland – An Interview With A Prostitute

Posted on: november 11, 2016
Street Prostitution in Holland

Street Prostitution In Holland Through The Eyes Of A Sex Worker Utrecht wants to end a designated street prostitution zone, called ‘tippel zone’ in Dutch, where street prostitution in Holland is legally allowed. Closing of the designated street prostitution zone at the Europalaan is a hotly debated topic within the municipality. Project developers and entrepreneurs are urging […]

Xaviera Hollander B&B Amsterdam Netherlands

Posted on: november 9, 2016
Amsterdam Bed And Breakfast Xaviera Hollander

Xaviera Hollander – ex-call girl, former madam, & famous author of the book ‘The Happy Hooker’ – runs a bed & breakfast in Amsterdam Xaviera Hollander, born in Surabaya, Indonesia, is a Dutch author and former prostitute and madam. She became world famous for her book The Happy Hooker: My Own Story 1971. Xaviera Hollander, after she […]

11 Facts And Fables On The Effects on Ecstasy Pills

Posted on: januari 1, 2024

11 Important Facts And Dangerous Fables On The Effects Of Ecstasy Use This article on the effects of ecstasy is based on research from the Dutch Trimbos Institute. Examples in the article refer to incidents that happened in the Netherlands. FACT: Women Are More Sensitive Towards The Acute Effects Of Ecstasy Than Men Women are more […]

Undercover Police In Amsterdam Hunt Fake Drug Dealers

Posted on: oktober 18, 2016
Undercover Police In Amsterdam Hunt Fake Drug Dealers

On The Hunt With The Undercover Police In Amsterdam Two men in alien suits are walking in the Red Light District, singing and dancing, screaming and cheering. They look drunk. Every twenty meters they check the drink menu of a bar. Until they get asked if they are interested in some cocaine, xtc or speed. “Good […]

Rent A Boat In Amsterdam Cheap

Posted on: januari 1, 2024
Rent A Boat In Amsterdam Self Operated

Why You Should Rent A Boat In Amsterdam It is thanks to the 17th-century canal ring and its spiderweb of canals that weave around the medieval city – that Amsterdam is occasionally referred to as the Venice of the North. It’s a city that must been seen via its old streets but also through its […]

Drugs Policy in the Netherlands Continuity and Change

Posted on: september 23, 2016
New Dutch Weed Laws Netherlands

New Dutch Weed Laws Aim To Legalize Weed Production For the first time in Dutch parliamentary history a majority of parliamentarians are in favour of legalising weed production. The new Dutch weed laws are proposed by D66 (liberal democrats) and could signal the end for the Dutch world famous so-called “gedoogbeleid:” policy of tolerance. State […]

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