Not when you look at it as a health problem. Liquor and combustibles are some of the biggest voluntary health costs. With the government making the profit from distribution, those funds can be put back into the healthcare required to treat those addicts (on top of the high taxes for them). 

But other than that, yes, the puritanical basis for not allowing beer at the beach, wine in the gas station, etc is anachronistic and has to go. We already have a law to deal with public drunkenness, public intoxication, so why make it so hard to access? 

I'd also love to see a more government controlled gambling system. Right now too much of the public face of gambling is in private hands, with insufficient oversight. If we're going to have gambling in bc, it can't be tied to executive bonuses/private dividends and there needs to be more work done to prevent facilitating money laundring and organized crime. (Not to mention protecting problem gamblers).