Where an offender's psychiatric condition is largely reactive to being charged and facing imprisonment, little or no moderation of general deterrence should be allowed, though the full discount under Verdins proposition 5 (increased burden of imprisonment) remains available. Current sentencing practices for cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis may be inadequate relative to the 25-year maximum penalty, and the correct measure of cannabis weight for sentencing purposes (total plant weight, yield weight, or dried weight) remains unresolved.
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