Kigali — Pte Jean Bosco Butera who is attached to the special force based in Bigogwe sector was carrying the illicit drug in a military rucksack at the time of his arrest. Police officials in the area say that they arrested Butera Thursday evening after a tip off.

When contacted, military prosecutor in Rubavu, confirmed the arrest and said that the suspect was helping them with investigations.”We have Butera with us, and he is to be transferred to Kigali by military police for further investigations,” 2nd Lt. Sammy Gafishi, the military prosecutor said.

“Police found him carrying marijuana in the military bag which he carried saying he was coming from his leave,” Gafishi reiterated.

According to Gafishi, the suspect faces up to five years in jail if he is convicted.

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One Company Hopes a Marijuana Lozenge Will Garner FDA Approval – but Will It Work?

By COURTNEY HUTCHISON
ABC News Medical Unit
Aug. 3, 2009

When most people think of swine flu, they probably don’t think of marijuana. But then again, most people aren’t Robert Melamede.

He and his company, Cannabis Science, hope to one day make marijuana available nationwide to kids and teens — as well as adults — in the form of a medicinal throat lozenge.

While medical marijuana has garnered a great deal of attention lately in helping patients deal with chronic pain, Melamede has another application in mind; he believes it can curb death risk from the swine flu.

The approach relies on the principle that the chemicals in marijuana known as cannabinoids have a dampening effect on the immune system. Melamede said doctors may be able to take advantage of this effect to curb the risk of death from the immune system overdrive that resulted in many of the deaths of young adults during the 1918 influenza pandemic — a scenario that some worry could occur once more if swine flu were to become more virulent.

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ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Kittitas County Sheriff’s deputies discovered 9,514 marijuana plants worth nearly $10 million during an early morning raid today about 40 miles northwest of Ellensburg, authorities say.

The 6 a.m. raid of an outdoor marijuana grow in the Teanaway Mountains also turned up more than a half mile of irrigation pipe, fertilizer and gardening tools, Undersheriff Clayton Myers wrote in a news release.

Authorities believe the grow is associated with Mexican drug cartels operating in the Pacific Northwest.

Nobody was arrested at the site, although deputies did find living quarters made out of lodge poles and pine bows, authorities say.

The Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office is part of a statewide marijuana eradication program, which combines federal, state and county manpower resources, funding, information and equipment.

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