A sentence of six years imprisonment is within range for wholesale trafficking in cocaine and MDMA over a nine-week period involving sales to up to 16 customers on credit, where the offender is not an addict trafficking to feed an addiction. The absence of drug addiction as a mitigating factor distinguishes this case from comparable authorities where lower sentences were imposed. A more lenient sentence may also have been within range.
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