Jack Slater, 27, drives all over the country for his job and was stopped by police in east London.
He failed a roadside drugs swab and a blood test revealed he was at almost double the legal limit for cannabis.
Father-of-two Slater, of Oakwood Road, Smethwick appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday, where he was disqualified from driving for twelve months.
He pleaded guilty to driving a Vauxhall Meriva on November 23, last year in Bethnal Green Road, Tower Hamlets with 3.9 ug/L of Delta 9 Tetrahydracannibinol in his blood.
The legal limit is 2.0.
He was fined £500, with £85 costs and ordered to pay a £50 victim surcharge.
Slater also pleaded guilty to driving without insurance and driving with a tyre below the minimum tread level on the same occasion and the court imposed no further penalty.
The court heard it was 2.50pm when police officers pulled Slater over and checks revealed he had no insurance police for the vehicle.
Officers also saw one of the vehicle’s front tyres was so worn the cord beneath the tread was exposed.
Slater was asked to submit to a drugs swab, which he failed and was taken into custody.
A subsequent blood test revealed the amount of cannabis in the first-time offender’s body.
Via the duty solicitor Slater told the court the vehicle belonged to his boss, but conceded it was his responsibility to ensure he was insured and the tyres were roadworthy.
He admitted occasionally smoking cannabis and had smoked the night before, not realising he was still over the legal limit.
Slater described his arrest as a “wake up call” and had just been promoted in his £500 per week job that requires him to drive all over the country.
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