Weiland drugs charge dismissed

Velvet Revolver's Scott Weiland has had drug charges against him dismissed because he completed a rehab programme of counseling, random drugs tests and forced AA membership. The dismissal related to his arrest back in May 2003 in California when he was a passenger in a car which was pulled over by the police and discovered to contain cocaine and heroin. Just months after that arrest, Weiland was pulled in on a DUI charge and ordered to a live-in rehab centre. It's not the first time the former Stone Temple Pilot has faced drugs charges, of course. He was charged twice before in California, in 1996 and 1997, and in New York in 1998.