The bag contained eight separately sealed small snap-lock bags with a total of 23.5g of cannabis, police said in a summary of facts.<\/p>\n
Ross Guy had consumed cannabis and methamphetamine when he smacked into a car stopped in front of him, injuring the driver. Blood analysis showed he was well over the safe level of cannabis use when he caused the accident in Nelson in October 2025. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old has now been sentenced in the Nelson District Court<\/a> to five months\u2019 home detention. <\/p>\n He was also sentenced on an unrelated charge of receiving a stolen bike last December, for which he was found guilty at a judge-alone trial.<\/p>\n Judge David Laurenson, KC, said an aggravating feature was that Guy was found in possession of the item while on bail on the driving and drugs matters.<\/p>\n Cannabis \u2018exceeded high-risk levels\u2019<\/p>\n Guy had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of causing injury while driving with drugs in his system, namely cannabis, which exceeded the high-risk level, plus a charge of driving with drugs in his system<\/a>, being methamphetamine.<\/p>\n He also admitted the charge of possessing cannabis, which he asserted had nothing to do with his mother, and that it was his.<\/p>\n Police said blood analysis found concentration levels of the drug in Guy\u2019s system exceeded the high-risk level of 3 nanograms per millilitre of blood, with a result of 62ng per ml of blood.<\/p>\n One nanogram is described as \u201cone billionth of a gram\u201d.<\/p>\n He was also found with a blood concentration of 43ng of methamphetamine, which exceeded the 10ng per millilitre of blood deemed to be safe, although it did not exceed 50ng, which was the high-risk level.<\/p>\n Guy\u2019s lawyer, Steven Zindel, said his client had been working in the hops industry and had largely remained out of trouble, but a few months before the offending he was made redundant and spiralled back into drug use.<\/p>\n Zindel acknowledged Guy had \u201ctoo much cannabis and meth\u201d in his system while driving that day.<\/p>\n The police said the \u201chuge amount of drugs\u201d in Guy\u2019s system made the offending \u201cvery serious\u201d.<\/p>\n While he had a limited criminal history, the police noted his \u201cquite long\u201d demerit history.<\/p>\n Crash into a stationary car<\/p>\n The court heard that about 4.30pm on October 6 last year, Guy was driving north on Nelson\u2019s Waimea Rd, which is a main road in and out of town.<\/p>\n Police said there was heavy congestion in both the north and south lanes.<\/p>\n According to the summary of facts, Guy admitted he had been consuming cannabis from midday and had also taken methamphetamine.<\/p>\n He was travelling too fast to stop short of the cars in front, running into the back of the victim\u2019s vehicle, which was stationary and waiting for traffic ahead to move on.<\/p>\n