Dutch coffeeshops are not clubs and this directory does not pretend otherwise: there is no membership, no collective grow and no waiting list — an adult walks in, shows ID and buys. What there also is not, despite fifty years of it, is a licence. Coffeeshops operate on a municipal declaration that the sale will be tolerated, and the supply that reaches their back door is not tolerated at all.
What this list does not cover
No Dutch authority publishes a list of tolerated coffeeshops — Rotterdam's open-data entry is a bare count with no locations — so every entry here comes from the shop's own public business listing. Only businesses that call themselves a coffeeshop are included; vape shops, seed suppliers and headshops are not. Note that several municipalities, most of Limburg and Brabant among them, serve Dutch residents only.
How the law works here
Nothing here is licensed and nothing here is legal — it is tolerated. Selling small amounts of cannabis over a coffeeshop counter has not been prosecuted since 1976 under the Opium Act's expediency principle, and each municipality issues a declaration saying it will not enforce against a particular shop on particular terms. Supplying that shop, however, is not tolerated at all. That contradiction — a tolerated front door and a criminal back door — is the whole of Dutch cannabis policy, and it has never been resolved.
No membership. Adults 18 or over, ID checked every time, 5 grams per person per day. But several municipalities — most of Limburg and Noord-Brabant, including Maastricht, Venlo, Tilburg, Eindhoven and Breda — apply the ingezetenencriterium and may serve Dutch residents only. Amsterdam does not. Each entry here says which applies.
Opiumwet, gedoogbeleid — Rijksoverheid