Quote Originally Posted by pinkchick
Nope, still not true. Holland does not really exist - you have the provinces South and North Holland, though. And the laws are the same all around. Each city has zoning restrictions for coffee shops, which is why especially cities close to the border to Germany have tried to move the coffee shops outside of the actual city - too many tourists just coming into the country to buy drugs. Amsterdam is more lenient about the zoning, I believe.
okay, well thanks for the information, just goes to show that there's more research to be done before I go dive into my great amsterdam dream ....