The number of people visiting cannabis cafes or coffee shops in Maastricht has gone down 16% since French nationals were banned on October 1, news agency ANP reports on Tuesday.

The city’s 13 coffee shops agreed to ban all but Dutch, Belgian and German nationals from buying cannabis in an effort to reduce the nuisance caused by drugs tourism.
Some 70% of the city’s coffee shop customers come from abroad.
The national government already has plans to stop everyone who is not an official resident of the Netherlands from buying marijuana in coffee shops by turning them all into members’ only clubs.
The European court of justice has said this is technically possible under EU law.