Methylamphetamine manufacturing for profit by a first offender, yielding approximately 60 times the trafficable amount of high-purity drug over a two-week period, with a starting point of 8 years 6 months reduced by 30% for guilty plea and mitigating circumstances to an aggregate of 6 years imprisonment, was upheld as appropriate. The case confirms that in drug manufacturing cases motivated by greed rather than addiction, personal circumstances and good character carry limited mitigatory weight, though they are not irrelevant.
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