A complex file.
That's how the former Deputy Prime Minister and Attorney General of Canada is describing her experience drafting Canada's marijuana legislation.
Anne McLellan was in Windsor on Friday speaking at the 2017 Public Greenspan Cohn Lecture in Criminal Law at the university.
She spent five months on a nine person task force, working on the 80 recommendations to legalize marijuana for the Trudeau Government.
McLellan says the task force focused on the protection of public health and the protection of public safety.
"We tried to think through based on what we're hearing from people and people's experiences especially in states like Colorado and Washington, what might some of those unintended consequences be and how could we try to avoid them here learning from the experience of others," says McLellan.
The Liberal government will put forward legislation that will legalize marijuana in Canada by July 1, 2018.