A 24-YEAR-OLD man who dropped a cannabis joint on to the floor during a strip search at a police watch house will have to re-apply for parole if he wants to be freed from prison.

Phillip Allan Francis Flynn appeared via prison video link in Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday charged with possession of a dangerous drug on November 24 last year and drink driving seven days earlier.

Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Bill McKenzie said the joint was "secreted between the defendant's buttocks".

The court heard Flynn was on parole at the time of the offence.

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Magistrate Damian Carroll sentenced Flynn to three months in prison with an immediate parole eligibility date.

He also fined him $1000 and disqualified him from driving for 12 months.