For active wholesale cannabis trafficking involving at least 150 pounds over a three-month period, the appropriate sentencing range is six to seven years imprisonment. R v Collins [2009] QCA 387 should not be relied upon as a sentencing benchmark for cannabis trafficking at the wholesale level, as it was distinctly lenient. The absence of a guilty plea and lack of remorse may justify declining to make a parole eligibility recommendation.
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