A sentence requiring 12 months' actual custody before suspension of a three and a half year head sentence for commercial trafficking in approximately 60 kilograms of cannabis, motivated solely by profit, is within the proper range even where the offender has good rehabilitation prospects, a timely guilty plea, and limited criminal history. General deterrence remains proportionately more important the higher the level of commercial trafficking.
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