Commercial cannabis cultivation offences ordinarily attract full-time custodial sentences. Personal circumstances including refugee background, difficult domestic history, and a dependent child do not, without more, justify an alternative to imprisonment for such offences. A sentence at the upper end of the usual range is not necessarily manifestly excessive.
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