A 19-year-old P-plater was caught driving under the influence of cocaine in Campbell on New Year’s Day, say police.
He was the first to be detected now that – since Wednesday – ACT police became able to test for the presence of cocaine in a driver’s system. Each roadside drug test is now able to detect cannabis, methamphetamine, MDMA and cocaine.
At about 8am, police were random drug and alcohol testing on Fairbairn Avenue and stopped the man’s Mitsubishi Magna.
The man was issued with a court attendance notice for a later date.
While penalties for possession of certain illicit drugs have changed and cannabis possession has been decriminalised, police say it remains an offence to have any of those drugs present in your system while driving.
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![Canberra’s woodchopping association – the Hall and District Axemen’s Club – is rebranding to Capital Country Woodchopping.
“We didn’t want to be exclusively a Canberra association and we deliberately left any gender-specific wording out in the new name,” says president Cheyanne Girvan, 32.
“We also went a different [way] to other associations under NSW by not including ‘association’ in our name.”
Four years ago the Hall and District Axemen’s club’s membership was 25.
Cheyanne says this name change will give the club the versatility to grow into other areas and on to greater things.
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