The history with the prohibition of access to Dutch coffeeshops of foreign tourists is interesting and instructive. It began in 2012, when the government of the country passed a law providing for the introduction of a limited circulation of special cards for local residents - regulars of coffeeshops. To buy "grass" under the new rules could only be the rightful owner of one of them. Thus, any tourist (and in general a non-resident) was automatically deprived of this opportunity.

The law entered into force on May 1, and not once in the entire country, and for start only in the three southern provinces, where he received the greatest support among local residents, tired of the constant influx of a characteristic public from neighboring countries, where marijuana is illegal. But in the same Amsterdam, whose budget is largely filled with income from tourism (in all its forms) from the prospect of losing one of its tourist "superpowers", many were, to put it mildly, not enthusiastic.

Apparently, the government managed to take and other not very popular legislative acts, because already in September, safely went to the early resignation . The new leadership of the country wisely corrected the new law, turning from the obligation to the possibility: now every city of the country decides, whether the access of tourists to the fragrant depths of their coffeeshops is to be bordered . In the south of the country the ban is still in operation (they were so tightly pulled from France, Germany and Belgium), but, for example, in Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht problems!