Cannabis professionals are asking Las Vegas city officials to help licensees establish the downtown Arts District as a place similar to Amsterdam — the European city made famous for its wide-open attitude toward cannabis and other pursuits outlawed in many places.

They say to do that, the city should get rid of a proposed requirement that cannabis lounges be at least 1,000 feet away from each other.

“It is absolutely unreasonable to make somebody walk more than three football fields to the next bar, restaurant, shops or casinos,” Tina Ulman, president and founder of the Chamber of Cannabis, said at Wednesday’s Las Vegas City Council meeting.