Amsterdam’s plans to ban tourists from its cannabis coffee shops

The World

Going to a cannabis coffee shop is on the to-do list of many foreign visitors to Amsterdam, but possibly not for much longer. City councillors are considering banning tourists from the coffee shops. It’s all part of an attempt to clean up the image of Amsterdam as Europe’s party capital. But not everybody is on board. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

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