A man who stocked up on cannabis at the start of last year's lockdown has been fined, after a sheriff suggested that others had stuck to laying in enough loo paper.
Dayle Batchelor, 26, was caught on April 10th 2020 with 113 grammes of the illegal drug in Vale View, Stenhousemuir, Stirlingshire.
Prosecutor Sarah Smith said value of the cannabis was estimated by a police drug specialist at around £400.
Batchelor, of Park Avenue, Stenhousemuir, pleaded guilty at Falkirk Sheriff Court to possessing the drug.
Solicitor Frazer McCready, defending, denied that the quantity seized suggested his client had a problem with cannabis.
He said the police expert, in a report for the court, had accepted Batchelor's explanation that he bought more cannabis than unusual because of the coronavirus lockdown.
Mr McCready said: "He thought his supply might dry up."
To laughter in court, Sheriff Derek Livingston commented: "So he bought more - with some people it was toilet rolls, with him it was cannabis."
He fined Batchelor £340.
