Bangkok police raid unlicensed Din Daeng cannabis shop, arrest one
Bangkok police raided an unlicensed cannabis shop at the entrance of Soi Intamara 44 in Din Daeng on 9 July 2025, arresting 28-year-old Worapong and seizing psychedelic mushrooms alongside cannabis-infused e-cigarettes, jellies and brownies.
🇹🇭 Soi Intamara 44 entrance, Din Daeng, Bangkok · Thailand
The Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau raided a cannabis shop at the entrance of Soi Intamara 44 in Din Daeng on 9 July 2025, acting on a Criminal Court warrant issued the previous day.[1][2]The operation was led by Police Lieutenant General Siam Boonsom with Police Major Generals Nopasilp Poonwasit and Pallop Aemonla.[1][2]The shop was selling cannabis products without the required authorisation.[1][2]
Officers arrested 28-year-old Worapong at the shop.[1][2]They seized371.32 grams of psychedelic mushrooms together with cannabis products: 157 boxes of cannabis-infused electronic cigarettes, 61 bags of cannabis-infused jelly, 83 cannabis brownies and 18 bottles of cannabis-related products.[1]The mushrooms are not cannabis and are counted only in the text, not the figures.[1]
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Officers with the detained shopkeeper inside the Din Daeng cannabis shop during the 9 July raid.Photo details
Thailand's government said 12,279 cannabis shops nationwide hold licences and that inspectors will suspend the licences of those selling without prescriptions, advertising, allowing smoking on the premises or selling online, with revocation for a second offence. Sixty-six appeals against suspension or revocation orders were filed in 2026, including 31 from Bangkok and 15 from Phuket.
Administrative and public-health officers raided an unlicensed cannabis shop on Ratsada Road in Mueang Phuket on 4 November 2026, arresting the 41-year-old female owner. They seized 36 cannabis items, seven other items and 123,290 baht in cash and handed the case to Mueang Phuket police for prosecution.
Immigration police and narcotics officials raided a cannabis storage and packing warehouse in Sam Wa Tawan Tok, Bangkok, on 31 October 2026, arresting 14 foreign nationals. Two Vietnamese suspects faced drug and immigration charges, while 12 other Vietnamese and Myanmar nationals were charged under immigration and work laws.
Immigration police raided a rented three-storey house in Bang Khen after neighbours complained about the smell and found more than five tonnes of cannabis flowers. Five foreign nationals sorting the flowers were detained; the licence the operation relied on had been issued for another province.
