Zac Richard Lucas was told drugs effected the developing brains of young men

“You only get one brain, now is not the time to be playing around with it,” the judge told the 20-year-old man.

The young man was warned of the dangers of drugs on a young man’s brain.

A 20-year-old Allora man before Toowoomba Supreme Court on drugs offences has been given a lesson on the dangers illicit drugs had on a young man’s brain.

“The brain of a young man your age is still developing,” Justice Peter Callaghan told Zac Richard Lucas.

“Cannabis has an effect on the brain.

“You only get one brain, now is not the time to be playing around with it.”

Lucas was just 18 when police searched a bag he had been carrying on an Allora street on March 7, last year, the court heard.

Inside the bag police found a clip seal bag containing 4.39g of substance of which 0.14g was pure MDMA (ecstasy), 20g of cannabis, 20 capsules, scales and clip seal bags, Crown prosecutor Nicole Friedewald told the court.

Four days later Lucas had voluntarily attended the police station and made full admissions.

He pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs and associated items.

His barrister Steve Kissick told the court the 20-year-old was in full-time work but wanted to get a trade.

Justice Callaghan ordered the convictions not be recorded and placed Lucas on two years and three months probation.