Two men were arrested last week, charged with possession of nearly half a kilogram of ketamine, worth £14,500, as well as 43.1g of cocaine, valued at more than £2,000, or enough ketamine to knock out 3,000 men.
Alister Semmens, 34, and Jay Daniel, 28, appeared at Truro Crown Court on Friday to be sentenced in connection with a series of drug offenses. Semmens, of Heatherbell Gardens, Carbis Bay, later admitted to possessing the drugs with the intent to supply them to another person.
"It's actually a horse tranquilliser and it's being more and more regularly used as a recreational drug," said Detective Constable Dave Stamp, the police officer in the case. "But has massively adverse effects on the human body."
"After just a short usage of a couple of months it can destroy the bladder."
"In this case, Semmens had enough ketamine in his possession to anaesthetise 3,204 average-weight males, which could have had quite a devastating effect on people in west Cornwall," Detective Constable Stamp said.
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