Where drug supply offences could have been dealt with in the Local Court, the maximum sentences available in the District Court are not limited to those that could have been imposed in the Local Court. A sentencing exercise involving multiple supply offences must be approached by reference to the totality of the offending. An offender cannot rely on dealing to feed an addiction as a mitigating factor where the offender's own evidence at trial was that the drugs were entirely for personal use.
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