Somsak Kiattikhan, 44, was arrested at a grocery store in Moo 5, Ratsada, yesterday (Jan 20).
The raid followed a tip-off claiming that the shop sold the bottled Kratom juice to young people in the area.
During the raid, officers found 300 1,500ml bottles containing boiled kratom juice and 15 500ml bottles of kratom juice. Officers also found and confiscated a large amount of kratom juice soaking in a freezer inside the store.
Somsak, the owner of a store, told police that he made and bottled the kratom juice himself. He sold the kratom juice to customers at B30 and B15 per bottle, respectively.
Somsak was taken to Phuket City Police Station and charged with selling boiled kratom extract without permission, in breach of the Food Act 1979.
While kratom the plant and its leaves in their natural form have been decriminalised from the Narcotics Act and are now sold as medicinal herbs, the production, sale and consumption of any form of kratom extract without a permit remains illegal.