No worries, potheads, you can still smoke up in Dutch pot cafes

Dope-loving tourists looking to toke up in Amsterdam’s famous marijuana cafes can plunk down their backpacks and breathe a smoky sigh of relief. The Dutch government has ditched its plans for a residents-only “weed pass” that would have effectively banned tourists from the country’s cannabis coffee shops, leaving it to individual cities to decide whether to enforce the ban. Amsterdam cafe owners, who opposed the policy, are (mostly) happily buzzing over the decision, which would have deprived legions of Eurail-clutching Americans of a long-standing rite of passage. Some, though, still find the new ruling a bit too (cough) hazy and are calling for clarification.