How long do drugs stay in your system?/ Drug driving solicitors Dublin/ Patrick Horan solicitor

As a general rule (and this is a generalisation) different drugs stay in your system for different lengths of time and there are many factors affecting this e.g. your age, sex, health, weight etc.

More serious drugs like Heroin, Cocaine, Ketamine, Methamphetamine etc. will generally stay in your system about 3-4 days after you have consumed them.

Cannabis, which is much less serious a drug, will stay in your system for between 21-28 days.

Most people being arrested and prosecuted for drug driving are found to have cannabis in their system, although cocaine is now appearing in a significant number of cases too.

But the significance is clear: smoking cannabis today will mean that at any stage over the next 21-28 days, that substance will still be present in your blood. That means that if you are required to provide a saliva sample over this period the presence of cannabis will very likely still be evident.

That means a definite arrest and prosecution for drug driving.


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Since the 2016 Road Traffic Act where a driver is found to have certain levels of cannabis, heroin or cocaine in their system within three hours of driving, the prosecution will not need to prove that the driver’s ability to drive the vehicle was actually affected by their intoxication.

The Gardaí have new powers to assist them in the detection of drug driving on Irish roads. A driver can now be required to provide a sample of oral fluid to be analysed. Up until now, a driver could only be required to provide a sample of their breath for the purpose of testing for alcohol. If a driver fails or refuses to provide oral fluid when lawfully required this is, in and of itself, a criminal offence.

If the result of the analysis indicates that drugs are present, the driver will then be arrested and brought to a Garda station where a doctor will be called to take a blood sample. Again, a failure or refusal to permit a doctor to take a blood sample is a separate criminal offence and will result in a minimum driving disqualification of four years upon conviction.

Once taken, the blood samples are divided into two separate containers and sealed. The driver will be offered one of the specimens to take with them to have independently tested if they wish. If the driver chooses to take one of the specimens, the remaining sample will be sent to the Medical Bureau of Road Safety to test for the presence and concentration of drugs.

Where any of these drugs below are detected by the Medical Bureau of Road Safety at a concentration exceeding that indicated the driver will be guilty of an offence:

9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Cannabis) 1ng/ml 11-nor-9-carboxy-?9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Cannabis) 5ng/ml Cocaine 10ng/ml Benzoylecgonine (Cocaine) 50ng/ml 6-Acetylmorphine (Heroin) 5ng/ml














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