Visiting Amsterdam for the pot? Sorry, not for foreigners

Amsterdam is famous for its "coffee shops" where you can have, well, just a little more than just plain old coffee. But now a judge is upholding a plan to ban foreign tourists from indulging.

There are currently more than 650 coffee shops in the Netherlands, of which 214 are in Amsterdam.

On Friday this week a Netherlands court upheld a brand new law that will introduce a "weed pass" which will be available exclusively to Dutch citizens and permanent residents in the country.

This means that when you go into a coffee shop, you'll just have to put up with a cappuccino instead.

The ruling comes into power in the southern provinces of the Netherlands next Tuesday... read full article.