Hashish museum opens
NZPA-Reuter Amsterdam The world’s first hashish museum has opened in Amsterdam, but visitors can only look at, not sample, the displays. Samples of marijuana and hashish on exhibit will be safely sealed in glass cases and as a fur-
filer precaution, the police have chemically treated the drugs to make them unfit for consumption. The police said they would keep a wary eye on the museum to ensure soft drugs were not encouraged. But visitors craving samples of their own can make their way
to a coffee shop next door where hashish and marijuana are legally sold. The museum, the idea of a few owners of hashish coffee shops in Amsterdam, traces the history of hashish consumption in Amsterdam and also displays memorabilia of the city’s hippie culture.
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Press, 27 April 1987, Page 14
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