Inside Amsterdam's 'coffee shops'
On the Warmoestraat, it's easier to find a coffee shop selling cannabis than an actual cup of coffee. There's a hive of scum and villainy like this street in every major European city, a dirty, dodgy avenue lined with seedy hotels and run-down bars, tacky souvenir stands and neon lights, drunk tourists and overpriced kebab stores.
But the Warmoestraat has that little something extra mixing with the distinctive stench of decay and old booze: the unmistakable aroma of hashish.
Grazing the side of the Red Light District like an open sore, the Warmoestraat is the gateway to the area. For the average tourist, the Red Light District is more voyeurism than vice, a seedy sideshow glimpsed with wide eyes by people wanting to see, but not necessarily be seen. For others, it's a place to pick your poison: casual prostitution, a sex show, or soft drugs.
As lovely as the UNESCO listed canals and dozens of world-class museums are, there's no doubt a large percentage of international visitors flock to Amsterdam largely because of the free availability of marijuana.
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On Labor Day weekend, a bustling sea of music fans in their late teens and early 20s were stuffed onto a grassy, open field in New York. One of them stood out, dancing in a sweat-drenched black T-shirt that read, "Sex, drugs and dubstep."
Obviously it wasn't Woodstock, but in between the neon sunglasses and hot pants, I saw remnants of hippie culture in tie-dye and plumes of weed smoke. Electric Zoo is a three-day electronic music festival held annually on Randall's Island in New York; this year 80,000 people walked through the gates. Earlier this summer, on the other side of the country, The Electric Daisy Carnival drew 230,000 people. Ryan Raddon, also known as DJ Kaskade, was one of the DJs that played there.
"People are like, 'This is the biggest thing happening in California," he says. "I'm like, 'Dude, this is the biggest thing happening in the world. I've got news for you: I've played Creamfields . I've played all these festivals all over the world. U2 doesn't do this!' That's why it's like, well, you can't ignore it much anymore.
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Take the close-fit flared denim trousers he wore with a leather waistcoat buttoned over a red-and-green stripe T-shirt on the night of a concert to celebrate the independence of Zimbabwe. “His clothes didn't wear him,” she says.
It was the late 1990s and early 2000s, so that meant neon tracksuits, sunglasses with rose-colored lenses and loose-cut JNCO jeans were all the rage. Therefore, we're thinking that Justin should probably go a little easier on himself when reflecting on
