A sentence of nine years' imprisonment is within range for high-end street-level trafficking in schedule 1 drugs (methylamphetamine and cannabis) over approximately 13 months, involving sophisticated advertising, use of encrypted communications, employment of associates, and continuation of offending while on bail, even where the offender has good prospects of rehabilitation. The parity principle does not apply where two persons each conduct their own separate trafficking businesses, notwithstanding occasional mutual supply transactions between them.
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