5 October 2007: Animal-Friendly Space Cakes

In coffee shops in Amsterdam, hashish can be consumed openly in a relaxed atmosphere, but local animal rights groups were not happy. They complained that the "spacecakes" sold - which are baked with hashish and can give an intense high - were made with battery-farmed eggs.

So now the coffee shops are turning to using free-range eggs to reduce the suffering of chickens. Four large shops have already switched and 20 more plan to follow.

Soft drugs are officially banned in the Netherlands but under a policy of tolerance, buyers are allowed to have less than 5 grams of cannabis in their possession.