While addicts in Portland, Oregon are pleading for the government to make drugs illegal again to help them break their addiction, the BC government, a province in Canada, is moving to legalize hard drug usage in that province.

Similar to what happened in Oregon, the BC government is in a three-year process of decriminalizing drug possession.

But as part of its legislation, the government has made it illegal for addicts to use drugs in public and recreational areas such as playgrounds, schoolyards, beaches, subways, bus stops, businesses, and the like.

This restriction has led to a public outcry from BC’s woke, left-wing crowd who are demanding that addicts should be able to use drugs anywhere they want.

According to the National Post, a group called the Harm Reduction Nurses Association is suing the BC government alleging that restricting where addicts can take drugs is a violation of their constitutional right.

The National Post writes:

The lawsuit, naming the province and the attorney general as defendants, alleges the Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act — which received royal assent on Nov. 8 — infringes on various Charter rights, including the protection of life, liberty and security, protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and protection against discrimination. […]

The nurse association’s 76 members in B.C., some of whom use drugs themselves or have close family or friends who use drugs, say they work with people who have experienced the “harms of systemic oppression” stemming from police interactions, displacement, seizures and imprisonment, according to the lawsuit.

READ: Drug users have legal right to use anywhere, says B.C. harm reduction nurses’ lawsuit AND The liberal US city where even the addicts are begging for drugs to be made illegal again: TOM LEONARD on how Portland led the way relaxing narcotics laws in a tide that swept America – then quickly bitterly regretted it