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Europe calmly switches to the Euro.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands _ Defying dire predictions that called to mind the Y2K mania of two years before, Europe's new currency, the euro, made an easy New Year's debut in a dozen countries that seemed either well prepared, sleeping in, or still on holiday.

Faced with the logistical challenge of having to accept both the old currency and the new money issued by the European Union, one of Amsterdam's notorious marijuana bars decided to make it simple: Dutch guilders were no longer welcome in The Bulldog coffeehouse.

The downstairs menu at the canal-side shop advertised four joints of Moroccan skunkweed for 12 euros ($10.68). Hashish-laced space cakes went for 5. Standing inside the door, Norbert van de Wereld was ...

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