British Columbia was in the act of decriminalizing many types of hard drugs, but someone with a modest lick of sense decided that hard drugs shouldn’t be near playgrounds, ruling that drug users shouldn’t consume their habits “within 15 meters of a playground, skate park or ‘outdoor spray pool or wading pool’.”

But the court was having none of it! The British Columbia Supreme Court “ruled that even this most delicate check against public drug use was a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.” Apparently within that charter was the right to do drugs near kids? Is that right?

Justice Christopher Hinkson acknowledged that “the attendant public safety risks are particularly concerning” given that many of the locations in question “are frequented by seniors, people with disabilities, and families with young children.”

But that wasn’t enough: Drug users, he argued, might suffer “irreparable harm” if they weren’t allowed to shoot up near these places.