A 34-year-old grandmother has been banned from driving for three years after being found high on cannabis while on the way to collect her daughter from school.
Samantha Eaton, from the Bebington area of the Wirral, Merseyside, was stopped at the wheel of her Citroen Xsara when a routine police check revealed that she was one-and-a-half times over the legal limit of the Class B drug.
Tests revealed that Eaton, a former carer and mother-of-two, had 2.7mg of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) - the psychoactive component of cannabis which is responsible for the high - per litre of her blood.
Her father then paid for a private blood test to contest the reading but this also came back to show that the then-33-year-old was over the limit of 2mg.
Further inquiries by officers also found that Eaton had previous convictions for drink-driving, which saw her banned for 19 months in 2020, as well as possession of Class A drugs, being drunk and disorderly, and an offence related to car insurance.
