but we are still working on the page you are seeking. Thank you for trying, anyway. We know how frustrating it is to find yourself on a page like this and, indeed, a site like this --- where so many areas of the site are not implemented. And we apologise for seeming to offer so much but actually offering little more than the publication that gives the site its name. But even getting that onto the web has been a major endeavour. And that has been the easy bit. Each of the other active areas of the site represents a gigantic project that requires considerable time and effort to get right.
If, however, the Coffeehouse Culture site is to fulfil its core objective -- to get what it has got to say across to the maximum number of people by providing an entertaining and informative resource that is so much fun, so broad, so well informed and so useful that it becomes THE resource for anyone interested in the cannabis/consciousness culture -- it must be a site like none other.
Thus, for example, the Archive section must provide access to the widest range of material drawn from the broadest spectrum of sources; the Links section must include links to all the coffeeshops, to everyone involved in the cannabis scene, to all the most useful Amsterdam sites, to all the directories dealing with alternative lifestyles, attitudes and interests, to all the webrings, newsgroups and chatlines; and as for Virtual Amsterdam . . . .
The immense amount of research and assembly work required to get the straightforward areas of the site together are as nothing when compared to the construction of Virtual Amsterdam. Were it not such a cool idea, it would be a task too gigantic to consider.
Rome was not, they say, built in a day. And nor will Virtual Amsterdam be. However, building work is already under way and as soon as the first area is ready it will go up.
Indeed, work is underway on all areas of the site and little by little new sections and new pages within existing sections will appear.
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