A total effective sentence of 5 years 6 months' imprisonment is within range for an offender involved in cultivating over 400 cannabis plants across five separate grow houses over 18 months, where the offender played a significant operational role in a sophisticated commercial enterprise, notwithstanding guilty pleas, no prior record, and genuine remorse. Cases involving single-location or single-occasion cannabis cultivation offences are not comparable to multi-property, sustained offending.
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