A 20-YEAR-OLD driver admitted to police he had smoked a 'spliff' an hour earlier and was feeling dizzy.

Blackburn magistrates heard a subsequent drug test showed Aqib Nawaz had cannabis in his blood at a level of 6.6 when the legal limit was two.

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Nawaz, 20, of St Marks Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to driving with a specified controlled drug above the specified limit. He was banned from driving for 12 months, fined £60 and ordered to pay £85 costs and £20 victim surcharge.

John Morris, defending, said there was not a lot of 'science' on the recently introduced drug driving charge.

"It is not appropriate to sentence on the basis of being double or three times the limit, it simply doesn't work like that," said Mr Morris.

He said Nawaz had been smoking cannabis since he was 12 years old.