Highland drug-driver found unresponsive in a car in a ditch - days after being caught for a similar offence
A Highlands man was caught by police driving with cannabis in his system twice in less than a week last year.
James Mee, of Brae Terrace, Munlochy was first stopped by police on March 7 on the A9 at North Kessock and a saliva test proved positive for the drug.
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Inverness Sheriff Court also heard that on March 10 police were called to check on an unresponsive man in a car in a ditch on an unclassified road near North Kessock.
Once more, the 40-year-old tested positive for cannabis. On each occasion, his reading was 7mcgs of the drug when the legal driving limit is 2mcgs.
Defending, Laura-Jane McFarlane told Sheriff Gary Aitken: "He was going through a difficult time. His mother had recently passed away and he was using cannabis to cope with that."
Sheriff Aitken told Mee that he wanted a background report and deferred sentence until December 5. Mee was banned from driving in the interim.
