You could probably hear the groans echoing through most B.C. NDP offices on Thursday, as Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, recommended that meth should be sold in stores without a doctor’s note.

Henry released a report declaring that stores need to start stuffing their shelves with meth, cocaine and other highly addictive drugs, in order to combat the addictions crisis. The report was predictable — and rightfully — panned as bewildering, if not utterly insane.