Immediate imprisonment remains the ordinarily appropriate sentence for involvement in commercial cannabis cultivation operations of significant scale, even where the offender's role is limited to that of a labourer or harvester. Characterisation as a 'crop-sitter' or 'harvester' does not of itself justify suspension. A mental impairment causally connected to offending will not remove general deterrence as a significant consideration unless the offender establishes that their mental state at the time of offending was such as to make them an inappropriate medium for making an example to others.
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