Man, 38, disqualified for a year for drug driving (Image: Archive)
A man from Odiham has been banned for a year for driving a car when the proportion of a controlled drug in his blood exceeded the specified limit.
Edward Hancock, 38, of Recreation Road, pleaded guilty to driving a Black Kia Rio on A287 in Hook on March 2 when he had 8.4mg/L of Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in his blood.
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The specified limit is 2mg/L.
Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court disqualified him from driving for 12 months.
Hancock should also pay £400 fine, £160 surcharge, and £85 costs.
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