Drug rip-off supply offences remain objectively serious and the weight of the substance represented to be a prohibited drug is a relevant factor in assessing objective seriousness, even where the offender never intended to supply actual drugs. The fact that proposed purchasers were undercover operatives does not lessen moral culpability. The sentencing judge's assessment of objective seriousness is reviewable only on House v The King principles and an appellate court will not substitute its own view.
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