In sentencing for drug trafficking offences, the quantity of the actual drug trafficked is of greatest relevance to the gravity of the offence, not the number of tablets or gross weight. Where purity is extraordinarily low, this must be given significant weight even where the number of tablets is vast. A sentence that gives too much weight to the number of tablets and insufficient weight to low purity and mitigating factors may be manifestly excessive. Imposing separate concurrent sentences for trafficking in two different drugs contained in the same tablets does not constitute double punishment.
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