Over 500 kg of cannabis seized in bread-tin packaging raid in Samut Prakan
On 23 April 2025 Bang Kaeo police raided a house in Rachathewa, Bang Phli, Samut Prakan, arresting six people and seizing more than 500 kg of dried cannabis flowers plus cannabis oil products; officers said the drugs were repacked in bread tins and food containers for parcel sales without permits.
At about 2 p.m. on 23 April 2025 officers from Bang Kaeo Police Station, with Samut Prakan
immigration police, searched a luxury house in King Kaew, Rachathewa subdistrict, Bang Phli
district, Samut Prakan, under a provincial court warrant.[1][2]
They arrested six people — three Thai women, one Thai man, one Chinese man and one Lebanese
national — and seized more than 500 kilograms of dried cannabis flowers packed in plastic bags,
along with cannabis-filled e-cigarettes and bottles of cannabis oil.[1]Police said the house
lacked the permits needed to process or sell controlled cannabis and that repackaging breached
Thailand’s controlled-herb rules.[1][2]
Officers found cannabis hidden in bread tins, instant-noodle cups, ready-to-eat food containers
and supplement cans for parcel shipment, and loaded the haul to the station in nearly ten pickup
trucks.[1]Pol. Col. Adirek Thongkamkaew said the raid followed a tip about unlicensed online
sales and that investigators were tracing finances and possible international links.[1]
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Cannabis seized during the Rachathewa raid (photo credited to KhaoSod in the Thaiger report).Photo details
Police gave no exact weight above "over 500 kilogrammes"; the figure stored uses 500 kg as the stated minimum.
A Thai television report said seven people were in the house during the search while the Thaiger account named six arrested; the headcount may differ between those present and those charged.
Suspects were not fully named in the English report; one woman, Chompoo, 28, was described as the tenant.
Whether charges under the Narcotics Act alone or also the Controlled Herbs Act were finally filed was not reported in the opened accounts.
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.
