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Dutch granny prostitutes celebrate red-light life
In a busy passage in Amsterdam’s red light district a crowd is gathering as fans jostle to have their picture taken with the city’s most famous great-grannies: Twins Louise and Martine Fokkens, the Dutch capital’s oldest prostitutes. Decked out in matching red leather jackets and boots, red jeans and crocheted…
Amsterdam’s pot shops saved after new Dutch government scraps ‘weed pass’
The Dutch city of Amsterdam, a famous hotspot for marijuana tourism, won’t be forced to stop selling weed to tourists any time soon thanks to a pact between the country’s liberal and labor parties, which came together this week to form a new coalition government. Under the new arrangement, the…
Meet the oldest prostitutes in Amsterdam – they’re 70-year-old twins
Neither Louise nor Martine Fokkens fit the stereotype of a window prostitute in Amsterdam. The majority of women working in the most notorious public brothel scene in Europe are young, conventionally attractive and from outside of Holland. The Fokkens are 70-year-old identical twins, and very Dutch. Known as the “oldest window…
Dutch pot smokers hope elections bring reversal on marijuana restrictions
Amsterdam’s pot smokers cast a keen, if somewhat hazy eye on Wednesday’s election, hoping for a government that will reverse plans to register them in a database and ban sales to foreigners. “You have to go out and vote, vote for any left-wing party, it doesn’t matter who, because they…
Judge approves Dutch ‘weed pass’ ban on drug tourism
Amsterdam, famous for its coffee shops where marijuana and magic mushrooms are dispensed to just about anyone who can pay for it, is about to harsh the buzz of tourists everywhere. A judge ruled this week that the nation’s “weed pass” law, which would restrict drug-buying to Dutch citizens only,…
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