Two men have been banned from driving for a year and copped fines of $800 each for unrelated instances of drug-driving.
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Bryce Kelly and Jai Rah Hohnel each pleaded guilty in the Bendigo Magistrates' Court on Monday to failing an oral fluid test within three hours of driving, while Kelly also entered a guilty plea to a charge of careless driving.
Kelly tested positive to cannabis and methamphetamine after he lost control and drove up the kerb in Edwards Street on the night of April 29.
He admitted to police he had consumed cannabis that night, and said: "I went to clean the windscreen and I went to the right too much".
Magistrate Tim Bourke noted Kelly's last drug-driving offence was in 2012.
Kelly said he had not gotten a demerit point in three and a half years, and told the court of his efforts at rehabilitation.
Mr Bourke told him to keep trying.
"If you can get yourself sorted out, more power to you," Mr Bourke said.
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Kelly was convicted, his licence was cancelled and he was disqualified from driving for 12 months.
Meanwhile, Hohnel tested positive to cannabis when he was intercepted in Lockwood Road, Kangaroo Flat on April 19.
He told police he "didn't realise it was in [his] system".
Hohnel's licence was cancelled and he was disqualified for the mandatory minimum of 12 months, effective from June, when he was served with a notice of immediate suspension.
He was also convicted.
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