Vondelpark

Vondelpark is the city’s main decompression space: a long stretch of lawns, ponds, tree-lined paths and open-air benches running southwest from the Leidseplein end towards Amstelveenseweg. It’s big enough that you can walk for half an hour without repeating yourself, and busy enough that nobody looks twice at people sitting around doing nothing in particular.

It works in a cannabis itinerary as the place you go after a coffeeshop rather than instead of one — somewhere to sit, slow down, and be outside without a schedule. The quieter western half is calmer than the crowded eastern entrances. Note that this is a public park with no cannabis policy of its own: the City prohibits smoking cannabis in public in the centre, and anything you do here is a matter of discretion, not permission.