Where possession of a traffickable quantity of cannabis arises as a concomitant of cultivation offences, and property damage offences share common elements with the drug offences, the individual sentences on the possession counts must reflect the overlap and not be set at a level that, when cumulated, produces a disproportionate overall sentence. The case also collects comparative sentences for large-scale hydroponic cannabis cultivation across Australian jurisdictions.
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