A cannabis user who refused to accompany police for a drug test twice in five minutes says he wasn't inebriated and oral fluid tests were "unreliable".
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Brendan Cherokee, 50, of Jukes Road, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court on Monday to refusing to accompany a police officer for an evidentiary drug test.
He told the court he didn't "smoke or drink and drive".
He said at the time of the intercept he was not inebriated and that when he smoked, he was only "stoned" for about an hour before being "back to a normal state".
Cherokee said cannabis stayed in the system for a long time, making the tests "unreliable".
Magistrate Mark Stratmann said refusing to accompany police for an evidentiary drug test carried a significant mandatory loss of licence of two years.
He said he would not go beyond the mandatory minimum term.
On February 9, Cherokee was driving a Mazda sedan east on Warrnambool's Lava Street about 5pm.
He was intercepted by police and required to undergo an oral fluid test.
That test indicated he had drugs in his system. He was asked to accompany police to the station but he refused and was told not to drive again.
But he continued to drive and was intercepted again about five minutes later.
He again refused the evidentiary test, telling police that if he went with them he would lose his licence.
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