Where an offender supplies commercial quantities of multiple different drugs over a sustained period as a business operation, sentences for each drug type should be at least partly cumulative, not fully concurrent. The motivation of funding one's own drug addiction is entitled to at most limited weight in sentencing for drug supply. Judicial Commission statistics should be treated as a check rather than governing the sentencing process, particularly where pre-standard non-parole period statistics may reflect systemic leniency.
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