A MAN has banned from driving for having more than three times the level of cannabis in his system whilst behind the wheel.

Colin McNair, of Alsatian Avenue, Clydebank, was stopped on the evening of March 13 in the town's Mossgiel Drive.

Officers detected a smell of cannabis and the 54-year-old said he had last smoked the previous evening.

He pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity to having 6.4mg of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood - the main ingredient of cannabis. The limit is 2mg.

At Dumbarton Sheriff Court on September 10, defence solicitor Judith Reid said her client had consumed cannabis the night before and "thought he would be in a position to drive".

Sheriff Lorna Anderson disqualified McNair from driving for 12 months and fined him £300 plus a £20 victim surcharge.