Police and health officials seized 90 cannabis-infused jellies from a shop in Bangkok’s Pathum Wan district.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] Police and food and drug officials searched the cannabis shop, on the second floor of a building on Banthat Thong Road, on 29 October 2026[1][4][5][7][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][22][26][27][29][30][31][32][33], at 188/25 Soi Rong Mueang 5, Wang Mai subdistrict[7][37], under a warrant from the Pathum Wan Kwaeng Court.[1][4][6][19][32] The road is a restaurant area next to Chulalongkorn University, popular with Thais, tourists and expatriates.[26]

Officers seized 90 cannabis-mixed jelly items with no Thai label and no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) serial number.[1][4][5][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][31][32][33][37] The FDA put their value at 50,000 baht.[2][5][18][22][23][24][26][27][28][30][31][33][37] They were packaged to look like ordinary children’s snacks and advertised online.[8][15][19][21][23][24][25][28][29][30][32]

Charges

A shop employee said the shop had sold the jellies at 80 baht each to Thai customers and foreign tourists for about a year.[1][4][7][8][11][12][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][26][27][29][30][31][32][33][37] The 26-year-old woman, identified as Saowalak[5][12][24], told investigators she was only an employee[3][9][16][28][33]; some accounts say police arrested her.[10][29] Officers told her she faced a charge of selling a controlled herb without permission[3][7][14][25][33], which carries up to a year in prison or a 20,000-baht fine[2][4][5][33], and of selling wrongly labelled food under the Food Act, punishable by a fine of up to 30,000 baht.[2][4][5][8][11][33] Samples were to go to the Department of Medical Sciences to check whether THC and CBD exceeded the legal limit, which could bring further charges.[3][4][5][8][11][14][19][23][24][27][28][29][31][32][33] Police were looking for the shop’s owner and others involved.[7][25]

Background

The search followed a case in Khlung district, Chanthaburi province, where a family fell severely ill after eating cannabis sweets, with convulsions and loss of consciousness that required ventilators.[1][7][8][9][11][13][15][17][18][20][21][22][23][24][27][28][30][32][37] They were a father, a mother and their two-year-old son, who was drowsy and thought to have eaten only a little[8][24][25][29], and the couple complained to Bangkok police.[10][29]

Central Investigation Bureau commissioner Pol Lt Gen Nattasak Chaowanasai said some operators were mixing cannabis into gummies, cookies and sweets for their intoxicating effect[11], and the bureau’s commander ordered a crackdown for fear that children could eat such products by mistake.[30] FDA secretary-general Supatra Boonserm said cannabis food the agency approves may contain no more than 1.6 mg of THC per package and must carry clear warnings[8][33], and the FDA warned parents to watch for unlabelled sweets marked with cannabis leaves or the words Cannabis, CA or THC.[1]