Groningen also has a few excellent coffeeshops, where you can buy and smoke cannabis products at a reasonable price. NB! Alcohol is not served in any of the coffeeshops and ironically smoking only cigarettes is frowned upon as the Netherlands has introduced the smoking ban some years ago even though quite a few bars are increasingly ignoring this ban.
The Glory, just off Zuiderdiep at the end of the Steentilstraat. Popular with lots of foreign students, and close to all major bus stops on the Zuiderdiep. Their
Dees, Papengang 3, . A cozy café with a nice selection of weed located in a small alley right next to the bar street Peperstraat. Inside a pool table, computers for surfing and big TV screens. Upstairs there's a bar called de Zolder (where you can smoke) with reggae concerts on Tuesday nights.
Metamorphose, Oude Boteringestraat. Nice and little alternative shop, with mostly biological stuff. They serve a large variety of fresh tea.
Driemaster, , Nieuweweg. Has the same owner as Dees.
Dr. Anders, a pick-up coffeeshops Gelkingestraat near Grote Markt (the main square).
Upper 10, Steentilstraat. You can get very nice stuff here but the place itself is a bit shady.
Oasis, on Meeuwwerderweg (only open till 7PM and not on Sundays) - which has good marijuana but is quite expensive. Nice café area makes up for it. Also a couple of tables outside during the summer time.
De Vliegende Hollander,Great stuff on Zuiderdiep opposite the Pathé cinema, . Inside there's a smoking room but no real hangout space.
Medley, (on Zuiderdiep next to Pathé cinema just opposite to Vliegende Hollander). A good cheap coffee shop, where at least Dutch & Arabic are spoken by the staff. I managed with English too just enough to get what I needed. This is just a pick up coffee shop. Can't smoke inside or stay there but it's quite cheap. Joints for ?3,00 also many kinds of hash (maroc, afgan..)for about ?5-?6 & weed/wiet: powerplant, sneeuwwitje (snow white), afgaan (afghan) 6, 10 or 20 euros. �
The Clown on Folkingestraat (a nice shopping street between Zuiderdiep and Vismarkt).
The Happy Damsterdiep 5.
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