'Coffeeshop' is really a nice way of saying marijuana / hash bar. You can order a coffee, order a joint (or roll your own), listen to music, play backgammon or whatever else floats your boat. First of all, the juice and hot chocolate is actually really good. Second, it is quite easy to master this process. Choose your grass or hash from a menu - in a bag or in prerolled joints. For hash, it comes in little squares you typically smoke in a pipe. You can 'borrow' a pipe, but I recommend you make a purchase and not share a pipe with strangers you'll never see. T
he prices are listed by the gram and the drugs are sold in bags (usually $5 USD or $12 USD bags depending on the exchange rate). Also, don't forget to try the 'space cakes' and 'bon bons' (brownies and other goodies with grass or hash cooked in). They are actually pretty good, can be strong, and lead to an interesting delayed high. We stuck to the well-known, touristy coffeeshops for the most part. The Grasshopper is one of the biggest and was pretty interesting. The Bulldog is a chain that is all over the city. This being said, some of the smaller, independent shops were sometimes friendlier.