Windsor's police chief admits he was caught off guard following a provincial announcement about the locations to smoke recreational cannabis.
The province announced the regulations will allow marijuana to be smoked anywhere cigarettes can be smoked, and will be covered by the Smoke-Free Ontario Act.
It means anywhere people can smoke a cigarette, people can smoke pot, including outside of the police station on the sidewalk.
Chief Al Frederick calls it "a game-changer which has turned things upside down."
"Our role of course is community safety and so when the target keeps changing, it is difficult for us to plan, we like to plan and we like to have our strategies long before so we know the rules of the game and in this case we don't," says Frederick.
He admits under this legislation, 'there's not much to enforce police-wise', but he does have concerns about safety.
"I think that this is going to cause issues for our community and for community safety," says Frederick. "I think that there is going to be accessibility to a drug."
He believes this opens the door to bigger problems.
"It has been proven over and over again to be a gateway drug to other drugs, we aren't talking philosophical anymore, this is happening," says Frederick.
The chief says the biggest concern for police, as of now, will be stopping impaired driving by drug given that marijuana will be legal.
The recreational use of marijuana will become legal October 17.