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Laughing gas is disappearing from the Amsterdam street scene, according to the annual drug monitor Antenne. Five years ago, over half of Amsterdam’s nightlife crowd used nitrous oxide. Last year, it was 16 percent. Ecstasy is still on top as the most popular party drug, Parool reports.
Fed up with stoned visitors and worried by hard-drug criminality, the mayor wants to clean up the city. But will it work?
Amsterdam council to vote against banning tourists from coffeeshops
Photo: DutchNews.nl Suggestions that foreign tourists be banned from Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes, or coffee shops, have been greeted with alarm by some experts, who warn that the situation in the capital cannot be compared with other cities. ‘The plan is doomed to fail’ criminologist Ton Nabben told a meeting of city councillors on Tuesday. ‘It will be disastrous for feelings of public safety, particular in alleys and dark corners.’ In January, Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema published a plan to reduce nuisance and crime caused by the soft drugs industry, by enforcing a national la...