Amsterdam is famous for two things: soft drugs are legal (weed, shrooms, peyote, hash, etc) and prostitution is legal. The Red Light district is a really beautiful part of Amsterdam. You see senior citizens, couples, tourists, all sorts of people and of course drug dealers on the street selling coke, ecstasy and heroin (hard drugs are illegal but tolerated)
image discription: The Red lights district in Amsterdam, picture taken in the summer of 2003.
image courtesy of :Bjarki Sigursveinsson & http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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