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The Amsterdam Cannabis Cup was shut down on Sunday — its first day — for fear that “all participants would be arrested,” according to organizer High Times magazine.

A Dutch judge in The Hague Friday upheld a law banning foreigners from entering the country's famous marijuana coffee houses. That means that as of next week, foreigners will be unable to purchase marijuana at coffee houses in three southern border provinces.

The country will no longer be a stoner's paradise thanks to a new policy that will bar non-Dutch residents from cannabis cafés in the southern reaches of the country beginning Jan. 1.