this happened to a friend at the Burn this year, and after giving him my advice, it occurred to me that maybe I came down too hard, so I figured I'd ask you good people for your thoughts.

My friend joined a new camp this year. He knew many (but not all) of the people in it. After being told (both in writing and in conference calls) that the camp has a policy of zero tolerance for drugs within clear line of sight (what you do in your tent, fully zipped up is nobody's business), and that doing drugs within clear line of sight would get you kicked out, the camp lead spent most of the Burn in his RV, on a couch with the door open (sitting clearly visible (though with the interior lights off) through the doorway, on this couch) doing whippets. When challenged, the lead said "I'm only visible to my camp, and we don't let strangers in, so it's totally fine.". He claimed that the likelihood of the police getting far enough into the camp to see him in his RV was so small that it didn't matter.

This made my friend uncomfortable, but he was a virgin, so he figured whatever.

I told him that I personally found that totally unacceptable. Had a cop managed to wander into their camp, and saw the lead doing whippets in his RV, they could have tossed the whole camp. I also told my friend that, were I him, I wouldn't camp with that guy again. FTR, friend did have some recreational substances in his tent. Nothing too hard, but more than pot, and definitely not stuff he'd have wanted to get busted with.

So, am I too harsh? Are whippets being done in a dark RV that is facing inside a camp not that big a deal? Or did I call it right?