HALIFAX—Cannabis might be legal to buy and use now in Canada, but it still landed one Nova Scotia man a $295 ticket this week when he had his supply too close to the driver’s seat of his car.

Nova Scotia RCMP had a routine check stop set up on Oct. 26 near the village of Nyanza on Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail, according to a news release.

Officers stopped a 64-year-old man at about 11 p.m., and after finding cannabis in his vehicle, they ticketed him for illegally transporting the plant.

RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jennifer Clarke said the officers found “a pill bottle full of marijuana — about four to five grams.”

That amount is well below the 30 g maximum that individuals can legally buy and carry, but Clarke said that when it’s in a vehicle, there are other restrictions.

“You have to treat it like alcohol, which is to be out of the reach of the driver,” she said.

The news release said the 64-year-old man was not impaired.

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