Mellow Yellow coffeeshop Mellow Yellow coffeeshop Mellow Yellow was the oldest cannabis coffee shop in Amsterdam, prior to its closure at the start of 2017. The coffee shop was founded in 1972 by Wernard Bruinin in Weesperzijde, Amsterdam, on the premises of a former bakery. The shop is named after "Mellow Yellow", a song by Donovan which describes the singer trying to become intoxicated through smoking the peel of banana. The intent of the shop is to sell cannabis, despite this being illegal at the time of its creation. Sales were originally disguised by drug dealers seated at the bar posing as customers.
Shades of yellow and named after the fruit. The color "lemon" is a representation of the color of the outer skin of a lemon. The first recorded use of "lemon" as a color name in English was in 1598. Maximum yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1926 to 1944. The color mellow yellow is displayed at right. "Mellow yellow" was first used as a color name in English in 1948 when it was formulated as one of the colors on the Plochere color list. The source of this color is the "Plochere Color System", a color system formulated in 1948 that is