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 If this is the last year that Holland will allow foreigners to visit marijuana shops, then you better book your High Times Cannabis Cup tickets now! 

Now that High Times has brought the Cannabis Cup to North America (the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup), maybe you’ve asked yourself why go to the High Times Cannabis Cup that happens every November in Amsterdam.

In a previous article I noted that the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup events in San Francisco and Denver were absolutely dank, wicked and kind. The North American Cannabis Cup events offer you many features that the Dutch Cannabis Cup cannot offer you. For example, you can get North American cannabis strains (such as Blue Dream, LA Confidential, OG Kush, Jack the Ripper) that you rarely if ever see in Holland.

Or how about the fact that you do not have to endure international border searches, or even airplane travel?

You can drive to a High Times Medical Cannabis Cup, and drive back home with whatever marijuana seeds, buds and gear that you got at the North American Cannabis Cup. That's stuff you can’t put in your luggage or carry-on if you fly to Holland and back.

But there’s one very important thing you can’t get at a High Times North American Cannabis Cup: Holland.

And unless you’ve been to Holland, it’s hard to imagine just how refreshingly different it is from North America.

Obviously you know one key difference: in most Dutch cities and towns, you can walk into a marijuana coffeeshop and order from a menu of tasty buds, hashish and space cake edibles (space cakes are officially banned but are available anyway, from behind the counter, at many shops).

Another difference: in Holland, unless you’re incredibly obnoxious about it, you can safely toke up in parks, at raves and other venues.

Instead of a “pub crawl,” you do a “cannabis strut” from coffesehop to coffeeshop, enjoying the many varieties of marijuana in all their glory.

Holland’s sophisticated European freedom vibe, chic entertainment and “soft drugs tolerance” policies are in sharp contrast to the conservative rednecky environment you experience in most parts of North America.

Imagine yourself stopping in at the Dampkring coffeeshop in Central Amsterdam, tasting and purchasing their exquisitely powerful gourmet bubblehash, heading over to the Van Gogh museum, eating Dutch pastries, visiting the Sensi Seeds Hash and Marihuana Museum, and as evening falls, head to the Red Light District or private sex club to find yourself a 420 girl who loves to get high and sexy.

That’s just part of the fun you can have when you visit Holland, and especially if you do it when the 24th annual High Times Cannabis Cup is happening this November, you get even more benefits.

Why? Because the Dutch High Times Cannabis Cup is still the most happening marijuana event in the world. The wild and creative High Times Cannabis Cup crew such as Callum Francis, Steve Hager, Danny Danko, and Nico Escondido bring you the hottest music, the stars of cannabis coffeeshops and cannabis seed breeding, stoner celebs like Tommy Chong and of course…

You get to smoke buckets of primo weed and decide who gets to hold the coveted silver Cannabis Cup the highest!

Because the Dutch federal government is threatening to exclude foreigners from Dutch marijuana shops beginning in 2012, I’ll be providing you exclusive insider guides to getting the most out of a visit to Holland...because now is the time to visit.

So whether you go to Holland right now while the weather is still warm and sunny, or wait until November to experience what could be the last Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, stay tuned to Big Buds for tips on enjoying Dutch cannabis freedom before it goes away.