Amsterdam Coffeeshop Menus 18+

Amsterdam coffeeshop prices in 2009 — annual report

Medians of prices transcribed from menus dated in 2009. Information only, 18+, no sales.

44 dated price records · 2 shops · 36 distinct names · menus from 2009-10-01 to 2009-11-05 · extraction date 2026-11-03

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Medians by category

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Median, minimum and maximum for each category of 2009, with the number of dated records behind them and the change against the last year with enough data for the same calculation. Per gram only where the menu prints the weight; joints are counted per joint.

CategoryMedianMinMaxRecordsShopsNamesChange
🌿 Weed € 8.33/g € 5.00 € 12.00 16 2 14 -7.4%vs 2008
🍫 Hash € 8.00/g € 6.00 € 25.00 14 2 13 -24.7%vs 2008
🚬 Joints € 5.50/joint € 3.33 € 10.00 13 2 12 +65.4%vs 2008
🍰 Extra € 6.00/pc € 6.00 € 6.00 1 1 1 -7.7%vs 2008

Change is median against median, same category, same unit. “/joint” rows are the price of one joint or one piece, not a per-gram figure.

New names first seen in 2009

Names that appear for the first time in the archive in 2009, in order of arrival, with the date of the first menu and the number of shops that still list them in 2026.

First new name of the year: afgaan (2009-10-01) · last new name: yellow libanon (2009-11-05) · 34 names in total.

NameFirst seenFirst shopShops in 2026
afgaan 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
black bombay hash 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
blue berry 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 5
casablanca polm hash 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
charras malana 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
cheese 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 13
chocolata 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
ice skunk 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
isolator 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
isolator joint 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
jack herrer 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 1
jamaican 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 3
kasmir 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
nepal cream 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 2
northern lights 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 1
old church 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
santa maria 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
skunk mix 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
special old church 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
thai 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 2
white widow reefer 2009-10-01 Old Church (original) 0
afghan 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
black bombay 2009-11-05 Sevilla 1
cristal 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
india skunk 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
manali 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
red libanon 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
sevilla special 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
silverhaze 2009-11-05 Sevilla 15
space choco-hot&high 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
super polm 2009-11-05 Sevilla 21
super thai 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
white rhino 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0
yellow libanon 2009-11-05 Sevilla 0

Cheapest and most expensive shops of 2009

Average €/g of the dated per-gram entries of each shop in 2009. A shop enters the list with at least 3 dated per-gram records; 2 shops qualify for 2009, so the cheapest and the most expensive lists overlap.

Cheapest 10 shops

#ShopMean €/gRecordsMenus
1 Old Church (original) € 8.99 14 2009-10-01 → 2009-10-01
2 Sevilla € 9.17 16 2009-11-05 → 2009-11-05

Most expensive 10 shops

#ShopMean €/gRecordsMenus
1 Sevilla € 9.17 16 2009-11-05 → 2009-11-05
2 Old Church (original) € 8.99 14 2009-10-01 → 2009-10-01

Average per shop, not median: it is a ranking of shops by their own dated entries, on the records each shop contributed in 2009. Every entry keeps the date of the menu it was read from.

Price index by area

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Median €/g of the 2009 menus per neighbourhood. Each shop is counted in the area whose centre is closest, so no shop is counted twice.

AreaMedian €/gRecordsShops
Nieuwmarkt € 8.16 30 2

How these numbers were made

Source. Every price on this site starts as a line on a menu: a product name, a price, a format and the date the menu carries. For 2009 the archive holds 44 such lines from 2 menus, 2 shops and 36 distinct names. Nothing is estimated, interpolated or filled in.

Median, not average. The figure published here is the median — the middle of the distribution. One expensive menu does not move it, and the average would hide the cheap end and the expensive end of the city. Minimum and maximum sit next to the median on purpose.

Per gram only where the menu prints the weight. 30 of the 44 records of 2009 print a weight, and only those can be compared per gram. Joints are counted per joint and products sold by the piece are counted per piece: they are never converted into a per-gram figure, because the menu does not print the weight.

Dates. A menu date is the date printed on the menu. It is not a verification date and not an availability check: a shop may have changed its prices the day after the menu was printed. Nothing on this page claims that a product is on the shelf, and no claim is made about effects or potency.

Limits. The archive holds the menus we have, not a census of Amsterdam: a year with few shops is a snapshot of those menus, not a trend, and the comparison with the previous year is only meaningful when the record counts are comparable. Shops can share an address, so the shop count is a count of menu records, not of physical addresses.

Extraction date 2026-11-03 · methodology identical on every yearly report.

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Citation

Amsterdam Coffeeshop Menus, 2009 annual price report. Extracted 2026-11-03. Source: https://amsterdamcoffeeshopmenus.eu/reports/annual-2009/ (data as of 2026-11-03). Figures are medians of per-gram prices transcribed from dated menus; menu dates are not verification dates.

Extraction date: 2026-11-03
Perimeter: Amsterdam coffeeshops, menus dated between 2009-10-01 and 2009-11-05 of 2009: 44 price records, 2 shops, 36 distinct names.
Format: one row per category (median, min, max, records, shops, distinct names). CSV: https://amsterdamcoffeeshopmenus.eu/reports/annual-2009.csv — header year,category,median_eur_per_gram,min,max,records,shops,distroducts; for joints and for products sold by the piece the median column holds the price per piece.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — keep the title “Amsterdam Coffeeshop Menus, 2009 annual price report” and the URL.

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Questions

What was the median weed price in Amsterdam in 2009?

The median price written on menus dated in 2009 is € 8.33 per gram, with a range from € 5.00 to € 12.00. That median comes from 16 dated price lines of 2 shops.

Did Amsterdam coffeeshop prices change compared with the previous year?

For weed, the median per gram moved -7.4% against 2008, the last year with enough data for the same calculation. The comparison is always median against median, on the same category and the same unit.

How many shops and menus are behind the 2009 figures?

44 price records dated between 2009-10-01 and 2009-11-05, read from 2 menus, 2 shops and 36 distinct product names. 30 of those records print a weight, so they can be compared per gram.

Are these live prices?

No. Every figure here is a price written on a menu that carries a date, and the date is always shown. A dated menu price is what a shop wrote on a specific day: it is not a guarantee that the product is on the shelf today, and it is not a human-verified visit. Availability is not checked.

How do I cite the 2009 report?

Use the citation block on this page, or download the CSV (https://amsterdamcoffeeshopmenus.eu/reports/annual-2009.csv) and quote the title and the URL. The dataset is published under CC BY-SA 4.0: keep the title "Amsterdam Coffeeshop Menus, 2009 annual price report" and the link, and say that the figures are medians of per-gram prices transcribed from dated menus.

Elsewhere on the site

All annual reports · Current prices by category · Weed prices · Hash prices · Joint prices · Extra prices · Extract prices · Strain index · Names that arrived in 2009 · Cheapest dated prices · Areas