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Hi, I am sorry to hear about this.

Is this your first driving offence?

A single cannabis joint will cause an average peak concentration of 84.3 – 162 micrograms (the legal limit being 2 micrograms). This will then drop rapidly over the following 4 – 6 hours, with a blood concentration of less than 2 micrograms expected to be reached within 7 – 12 hours (depending upon your tolerance to THC). you only had 6.5. You could argue that you smoked cannabis the day before but not at the time of the offence.

You could also potentially argue passive smoking for cannabis as a special reason.

You will probably need to plead guilty and argue what we call special reasons:

For example:

• The fact that a motorist drove for a short distance and in circumstances where he was unlikely to be brought into contact with other road users. I have successfully argued this in drink-driving cases where the court decided not to disqualify it all;
• The fact that a motorists’ drinks/drugs were laced and he did not know he was consuming alcohol. This was also successfully argued in the past. 
• The fact that a motorist was given drinks/drug stronger than he asked for and didn’t know;
• The presence of mouth alcohol as a factor affecting the reliability of the breath specimen. This can cause an elevated reading unrelated to the amount of alcohol actually consumed.
• The fact that a motorist unintentionally committed the offence of driving without insurance because he was misled by his insurance company or someone else telling him that he was insured. I have presented such cases many times for example where a wife or husband has been innocently misled by their spouse;
• The fact that the motorist committed the offence when coping with a genuine emergency. This for example can apply to drink driving, careless driving, and speeding. I have argued it successfully in speeding cases where drivers were escaping unwanted attention from other drivers;
• Driving whilst disqualified when the motorist did not know he was disqualified and had good reason not to know.

Special reasons must meet the following criteria:

• They must not amount to a defence in law
• They must be valid reasons that the Court should take into account when deciding what sentence to pass, they cannot be irrelevancies
• They cannot relate to the offender, they must relate directly to the commission of the offence in question
• The reason must be something that lessens the severity of the offence, a mitigating circumstance