Metro

Cabdriver gets over the hemp

A cabby who lost his hack license by flunking a random drug test came up with an excuse so unusual that a city appeals panel recommended he be reinstated.

Stephen Kwaku Kyei said he failed the test because he was among thousands of men duped into drinking a beverage laced with hemp when he recently visited his native Ghana.

“This is certainly one of the more unusual cases we’ve come across,” said one city official.

In September 2011, Kyei rushed home to tend to two daughters hurt in a car accident. When the younger girl died, he took to consoling himself with daily shots of Two Fingers, or Atemuda — despite the drink’s well-advertised sex-enhancement properties, he said.

This went on until he returned to New York on Feb. 26. Sixteen days later, the Taxi & Limousine Commission summoned him for a standard drug test — which came back positive for marijuana use.

Later, while catching up online with the news back in Ghana, Kyei learned that the manufacturers of Atemuda had been arrested for secretly adding Indian hemp to the popular drink.

Administrative Law Judge Kara Miller confirmed the arrests before buying Kyei’s story and recommending that he be exonerated.

TLC Chairman David Yassky will have final say.