Break-up of parents put son on ‘ice’

A TOOWOOMBA man who returned to drug use after his parents separated has been warned drugs were no answer.

“People think they can dabble in ice,” Magistrate Viviana Keegan told Leagon Daniel Carter.

“But they lose everything that’s important in their life.”

Carter had tested positive for methylamphetamine (ice) and marijuana after being pulled over by police while driving on South St on December 2, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

A police search of his car turned up 0.4g of ice and 4.3g of marijuana, police prosecutor Senior Constable Julia Wheaton told the court.

A police search of his residence in January had found 24 marijuana plant seeds on a shelf beside his bed, 1g of marijuana leaf, a glass pipe for smoking the drug, a grinder for chopping up leaf and a cone piece used for smoking, she said.

The 28-year-old pleaded guilty to all charges.

His solicitor Chelsea Saldumbide said her client had turned back to drug use on the separation of his parents, but he had realised that he couldn’t continue that way and had sought counselling and had been off drugs for six weeks.

Magistrate Keegan fined Carter $600, disqualified him from driving for one month but ordered no convictions be recorded.