SEX, DRUGS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Amsterdam Prohibits Ads for Fossil Fuel Products and Meat, While Prostitution and Weed Are Legal, and the Mayor Champions the Legalization of Cocaine
Sex and drugs, but no gas or meat.
Amsterdam is known to be an ultra-liberal city, with legalized prostitution, Coffee shops selling marijuana and hashish, while hallucinogenic truffles can be found in ‘smart shops’.
But in the public spaces of the climate change-obsessed ‘Venice of the North’, you won’t find advertisements for ‘dangerous’ gas cars or meat products.
Amsterdam is about to become the latest big city to ban adverts for fossil fuels in order to fight climate change.
But are bans a good idea, and do they make any difference?
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The New York Times reported:
“On May 1, Amsterdam became the first capital city in the world to ban ads for fossil fuel products and meat. It is part of the city’s efforts to discourage consumption of goods linked with high carbon emissions.
Ads for airlines, cruises, and faraway destinations are no longer allowed, because they implicitly promote the burning of fossil fuels. Ads for beef, chicken, pork and fish are also banned, because of the environmental harms caused by animal agriculture.”
#FOCUS – Cities around the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, cruise ships and petrol cars.
This in the name of the fight against global warming. Amsterdam is latest city to join the movement, becoming the first capital in the world to approve legal ban on… pic.twitter.com/9n7GJsVjfy
— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) April 28, 2026
“Amsterdam’s law applies to city-owned properties and public spaces, such as buses and bus shelters, benches, trams, trains and metro stations, and billboards. Advertising in privately owned stores and in media such as newspapers, radio and online formats is exempt.”
Laws banning fossil fuel ads began in the Hague, and when the Dutch travel trade association and several travel agencies sued, the judge said that ‘the health of its citizens and the climate was more important than commercial interests’.
“Amsterdam passed a motion to ban ads for fossil fuel and high emissions travel in 2020, but it wasn’t legally binding and carried no penalties. The new law gives the city enforcement teeth, and includes the meat advertising ban. This year will largely be considered a grace period, but fines can still be issued to scofflaws.”
Cocaine soonnlegal in Amsterdam?
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has called for the regulation of the sale and use of cocaine to undermine the economics of criminal enterprises that she said are racking up “billions” in profit.
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In the meantime, Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema is generating controversy across Europe for suggesting that regulating the cocaine market could help the fight against organized crime.
We Rave You reported:
“Speaking at a European congress on organized crime, attended by ministers and policymakers from across the continent, Halsema argued that current drug enforcement strategies have failed to stop the flow of cocaine into Europe. According to the mayor, decades of seizures and law enforcement efforts have not significantly disrupted the illegal trade.
“’Let us face the facts: the war on drugs isn’t working’, Halsema said during the event. ‘Seizing drugs is not working. And cocaine regulation isn’t in the picture either. I hope we can agree that we need to formulate an alternative strategy’.”
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