A sentence of five years imprisonment suspended after 15 months for a three-month trafficking operation in Schedule 2 synthetic cannabis through retail outlets is within the sound exercise of the sentencing discretion where the offender was the operations manager with extensive involvement, knowledge of the drug's dangerousness, and continued trafficking after adverse reactions and deaths occurred. The parity principle does not require equivalent sentences where co-offenders had materially different levels of involvement and criminality.
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