Mellow Yellow (coffeeshop)

The cannabis coffeeshop was founded in 1972 by the hippie Wernard Bruining and friends in a squatted former bakery on Weesperzijde, Amsterdam.

[1] He called it a teahouse, inspired by 1920s and 1930s cannabis cafes in the United States.

[1] The shop was named after "Mellow Yellow", a song by the Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan that was rumoured to be about the singer trying to become intoxicated through smoking the peel of banana.

The owner Johnny Petram protested that the school near to his shop was a hairstyling academy with students generally over the age of 18, but the Amsterdam government still required its closure.

Petram stated his hope that he would be able to reopen Mellow Yellow at a new location.