Wholesale drug dealing involving multiple drug types over a sustained period and across multiple locations requires full-time custody; rehabilitation combined with nine months' remand custody does not constitute exceptional circumstances where the remand period is substantially less than the appropriate sentence. A favourable family background and good education may be aggravating rather than mitigating in the context of commercial drug supply.
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