DRUGS AND DRIVING If you are pleading guilty to an offence of drug driving, the Court must, in addition to any other penalty, disqualify you from holding or obtaining a motor vehicle driver license. In some circumstances you may be eligible to apply for a restricted work license. Unfortunately, in Queensland, there is no capacity to grant you a Special Hardship Order for a drug driving offence. A Special Hardship Order would ordinarily enable a person to attend to activities such as taking children to and from school or attending to medical appointments with the ill. In Queensland however there …
