Police officers on mobile patrol in the grounds of Coleg Ceredigion in Cardigan at lunchtime saw a student sitting on a wooden bench rolling a cigarette.
When the officers approached Gavin Huw Davies they recognised a lump of skink cannabis in his possession and seized 4.2 grammes of the drug.
When he appeared before magistrates in the town Davies, a 20-year-oold part-time carpentry student, of Min y Ffordd, Llanpumpsaint, pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing herbal cannabis on July 3.
He was fined £150 with £60 costs and a destruction order was made in respect of the seized cannabis.
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