Former Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie celebrated the first person convicted under the LNP's VLAD legislation with an attack on Labor's "flip-flopping" position on the legislation.

Joshua Robin Rohl was convicted on Wednesday for his role in smuggling $16 million worth of cannabis on commercial flights between Melbourne and Brisbane.

Queensland Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie says the conviction of a drug trafficker proves the VLAD laws work. Credit:Glenn Hunt

In the Brisbane Supreme Court Rohl, 31, was sentenced to five years in prison, suspended after 18 months. The Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act is a sentencing tool that adds 15 years to the sentence of those convicted of being part of organised crime, or in a gang, with an extra 25 years added to someone found to have been an office bearer.

Rohl, while not a member of a bikie gang, was found to be part of organised crime.