Due to the purpose of and publicity around Paradiso, Fantasio and Kosmos all banks quit their financial cooperation with these foundations. Meanwhile Koos gets airtime on VARA radio broadcasting channel, and provides the current prices for different dopes every Saturday at 2 PM to his listeners.
Maroc, red and yellow Lebanese, Afghani, Pakistani, India, Nepalese and the first Dutch nicotine cannabis at 50 cts a gram, that tasted like spinach.
Run by Matthijs van Heijningen and Simon Vinkenoog, a Dutch avant-garde poet, Smoking was allowed there.
Run by Koos de Zwart and Willem de Ridder. One could smoke there, but not buy any gear.
At that time were two groups of youngsters riding small motorbikes, the “Dijkers” based on Haarlemmerdijk, known by their greasy duck tails and bellyhugging Kreidlers, and the “Pleiners” on their Puch bikes.
Through Matthijs van Heijningen, Koos obtained the key to the Melkweg Factory to use this as a youth center (this became the Melkweg foundation). The first dealer here was “Maarten” (later based in the Rusland coffee-shop) and following him, Nol.
As a sort of “camouflage” the selling was done from a tea-house annex nut bar inside.
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