this might help, i had posted this on a mercedes forum that im on after my trip last year where i really documented everything and took tons of pictures.....

first thing you should do when you get there is go into one of the souvenir shops and buy this book called 'the smokers guide'. you can see what it looks like here and it wouldnt be a bad idea to read the site too before you shoot over there, its very helpful:

A Smokers Guide to Amsterdam, marijuana, cannabis and drug guide.

heres my favorites list in no particular order:

coffeeshops:
1> barneys
2> grey area
3> hill street blues
4> baba
5> abraxas
6> greenhouse
7> amnesia
8> dutch flower

murdas:
1> willie nelsons from barneys
2> arjanâ??s ultra haze #2 from greenhouse
3> nyc diesel from nes
4> nevilles haze from hunters
5> grey haze from grey area
6> sweet tooth from bluebird

hash:
1> carmella cream from barneys
2> nevilles haze hash from greenhouse
3> abraxas special from abraxas
4> skuff from pink floyd
5> iceolator from barneys

shrooms:
1> azurescens (worlds strongest shrooms)
2> thai

food:
1> fondue anything

drinks:
1> loozas + grey goose


things i noticed when we were over there:

1> everyone hates americans yet they listen to american music, try to dress like americans, talk like americans. all the locals we ran into that werent in coffee shops (and some in certain shops like dutch flower, basjoe) always looked at us like we had ten heads. if we asked for directions or advice most of the time we were ignored, told 'ney' or a few times called farkin arsholes, lol.

2> big brother is everywhere. videos cameras in all the streets, in all the alleys, on all the corners. not as many uniformed cops as say nyc but we learned most of the cops that are on duty are undercover with cameras on their necks. also on the highways they have those cameras on the signs that monitor your speed between signs and if you get to a sign quicker than you should you can expect to get a ticket in the mail.

3> that we get the same or even better weed in nyc except that its 10 times as expensive and theres not always as big of a selection. we also dont get anywhere as near the variety and amount of hash here. its too risky here, if youre gonna sell hash you might as well sell coke.

4> the cheese fondue at all the spots we ate at was great.

5> one thing i did not like was all the shady looking al qaeda terrorist looking people in the coffee shops smoking hash out of a hookah in the corner or selling donuts and pastries in the bakeries. wasnt sure if they were plotting their next move in the coffee shops over some hash or that buying donuts and shit we were helping support those motherfukers.

6> all the street peddlers trying to sell us coke, e, h, crystal, etc., everytime we walked past them stopped after my boy knocked one of them out when he wouldnt get out of his face, lol.

7> the hotel tried telling us we couldnt smoke the murdas in the hotel and actually put us in the no-cigarette smoking section of the hotel. didnt matter to us, we still puffed in the hotel and each time they knocked on our door we asked them if they honestly thought that 4 guys from nyc werent going to smoke in amsterdam as we continued to blaze.

8> tv sucks over there. they have a bunch of corny ass stupid US sitcoms that they re-run with i guess dutch subtitles. pretty interesting how you can just sms a hooker to your room from the commercials on tv.

9> i had the concierge at the hotel we were staying at call a cab for us to bring us to the airport and this guy that looked exactly like the transporter pulled up in a swb w220 s320 cdi and the trip to the airport he was tellling us all about amsterdam and what goes on besides the usual stuff:

-he was saying that he used to live in the city but for the price of a flat with one bathroom he was able to get a 5 bedroom house with a few baths for the same price as the flat just outside the flower district (i think he said thats just past the airport)

-that right now the dutch people are concerned about the sudden influx of immigrants, especially those from turkey and moracco. he said that was another reason he and his fam bounced from the city and went to the suburbs. he said him and his wife were having a hard time sending their kids to school where out of 30 kids in a classroom, under 10 of them were dutch and that all these immigrant kids def dont have the same mentality and beliefs as the dutch.

- that he paid 107,000 euros for his s class that he owns and operates himself as a livery driver. he said he got back like 30,000 or so euros from the govt under some program. part of the program is to keep the car i think he said for at least 10 years or a pre-determined mileage.

- that next time we go back, he gave us all his info so that we can hire him for the week as a chauffeur/guide and he'll show us the "real" amsterdam, lol.