Do Coffeeshops in Amsterdam sell Mushrooms or Alcohol?
No to both — and in the case of alcohol, they never really did.
Alcohol
A coffeeshop is defined in Dutch policy as an alcohol-free venue. That's been the case since the national guidelines took effect in 1996, and it's why coffeeshops don't hold a drinks license: the two categories are mutually exclusive by design. Serving alcohol is a direct breach of the tolerance conditions, on the same footing as breaking the 5-gram limit or dealing hard drugs — the mayor can issue warnings, orders, or temporary closure, and can refuse or withdraw the operating permit and tolerance decision entirely.
Expect coffee, tea, soft drinks, juices and snacks. No beer, no wine, no BYO.
Mushrooms
Coffeeshops have never sold these, and legally can't: the tolerance framework covers cannabis and hashish only, and everything else on the Opium Act lists is off the menu.
Smartshops are the relevant shops here — but the rules changed in 2008 and much of what's written online is out of date. Magic mushrooms were sold openly in smartshops from 1993 to 2008. They stopped being legally sold on 1 December 2008, after a fatal incident involving a teenage tourist the previous year.
What survived the ban is the truffle, or sclerotium — the underground part of the same fungus, containing the same psilocybin, which fell outside the wording of the legislation as a by-product of the mushroom. The RIVM's drug-monitoring body found health incidents linked to truffles to be very rare, and they stayed legal on that basis. They're sold in licensed smartshops in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht to over-18s, and as of 2026 no bill proposes banning them. Truffles carry no penalty; the banned mushrooms are treated as a soft-drug offence, with personal amounts usually confiscated rather than prosecuted.
Two practical points for visitors: the legality stops at the Dutch border — exporting truffles is illegal and Dutch law protects you nowhere else, and if a shop offers you "mushrooms," you're either in the wrong kind of shop or being sold truffles under a loose name. In legitimate Amsterdam retail, the word is truffles.
"Can I smoke and drink in the same place?"
Rarely, and not the way people picture it. Bars don't sell cannabis and coffeeshops don't sell alcohol — the licensing keeps them apart. Note too that the Dutch indoor smoking ban means you can't mix tobacco with your cannabis inside a coffeeshop; shops offer for free or sell tobacco-free herbal blends for exactly this reason, or you smoke it pure.
