Smoke-free Amsterdam

I've spent a fair amount of time in Amsterdam lately so I've been conducting a straw poll of bar staff's opinions on the UK-style smoking ban that came into force on July 2nd. Purely for research purposes you understand. I am now in a position to report. I enclose my findings in quotes because their response is unanimous and almost identically expressed: "It's schit. All the staff in this bar smoke. Before, we could have a cigarette inside and carry on working. Now we have to take a break. And the customers all want to smoke too, so they're outside and the atmosphere inside the bar has died".

I hear conflicting reports about what's happening in the city's well-known coffeeshops, ranging from no change to air-conditioned cubicles for the staff to smoking spliffs being allowed, but on no account with tobacco - pure ganja only! You know Gobbag never frequents places like that so I can't comment on any of these rumours, including the last piece of entertaining lunacy but I can tell you that there is a lot more weed being smoked on the streets, which was banned anyway. What's happened to the Dutch?