Colorado’s effort to tax marijuana as a means to help the state budget never materialized, at least financially, slowing expansion of industries supported by the drug. As attempts to approve marijuana’s use in other states and cities falters, these industries face unexpected road blocks.

Theresa May’s psychoactive substances bill has plunged the nation’s legal highs sellers into existential crisis. The legislation would ban all recreational drugs, while making individual exceptions for booze, tobacco, caffeine and so on, ending the lucrative legal cat-and-mouse game that has allowed high street shops and internet entrepreneurs to deal, legally, in new and untested drugs.

Hello, ladies! Those two iconic words set ablaze the hearts of many female wrestling fans in the late 1990s when Val Venis made his seductive entrance into the arena. As a smooth saxophone played in the background, Venis swayed his hips and many times locked his lips with lucky members of the WWE Universe.

Nowadays, Venis is not as entrenched in the wrestling business. With a busy schedule and personal goals, religiously keeping up with wrestling is not on Venis’ agenda.

As a recent high school graduate, I have seen the short- and long-term effects of marijuana from all aspects of my life. I believe that the opinions and viewpoints of our younger generation are vital when it comes to the decision to legalize marijuana.

Even though this drug has positive medical uses and effects, it is still a mind-altering drug that needs to be legally regulated and used responsibly when utilized for recreational purposes. 

It’s an industry, they say, that’s too new to have a glass ceiling. And for many women, that’s a good reason to get into the booming legal marijuana business.

“There is no such thing as an old boys’ network in a new industry,” says Wendy Berger Shapiro, co-founder of a group called Illinois Women in Cannabis.

Berger Shapiro started the professional networking group with attorney Dina Rollman last August to “get women at the starting line at the same time as the men,” Rollman says. “So they’re not playing catchup, and they’re leading the industry, shoulder-to-shoulder with the men.”

With Illinois having legalized medical marijuana, seriously ill people who qualify could be able to obtain legal weed as soon as this fall, some predict.

A Ukiah tribe has downsized its plans for a medical marijuana farm, at least for now, as it continues to explore what will and won’t be tolerated by law enforcement officials.

The Pinoleville Pomo Nation’s initial plan, backed by a Kansas investment company that funds tribal economic projects like casinos and now marijuana operations, called for a $10 million pot-growing operation in multiple greenhouses spanning some 110,000 square feet on the tribe’s rancheria just north of Ukiah.

AMHERST, N.Y. -- The Friday 4 p.m. deadline has now passed for companies that want one of five medical marijuana grower licenses in New York State.

2 On Your Side talked with two groups -- both headed up by physicians -- who submitted their applications to the New York State Department of Health.

Dr. Gregory Daniel and nearly 30 other physicians are part of Alternative Medicine Associates, LLC. They turned in a 66,000-page application.

"It's very restrictive, very laborious, but we nevertheless struggled mightily, recognizing that, as physicians, we have a duty to the patients that we serve," Dr. Daniel said.

Businesses wishing to offer medical cannabis to clients need to ensure they are prepared to distinguish themselves in a rapidly expanding field, announces Marijuana Marketing

As of May 5, 2015, 23 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws allowing for the use of medical marijuana. In addition, other states are debating on whether they should follow suit. Businesses and collectives in the industry find they must act quickly to distinguish themselves in a rapidly growing field and Marijuana Marketing strives to help them do so, offering tools to help a company or collective make their mark.

A New York company is putting down roots in Minnesota by building up a network of doctors and clinics to put patients in line for medical marijuana — a business model that state officials had hoped to avoid.

MarijuanaDoctors.com is coordinating with doctors in Minnesota to set up clinics designed to give patients the sign-off required to register with the state to buy the new medicine. The first clinic, in Bloomington, filed its business registration forms this week. The company's chief operating officer, John Nicolazzo, said three others will get started on Monday, with a dozen total planned.

Bob Marley and cannabis are almost synonymous — in some places, "Bob Marley" is the street name for pot. So, it was almost an inevitability these two would one day be formally united. That day came in November 2014 when Marley's family and private equity firm Privateer Holdings announced the creation of Marley Natural, the world's first international cannabis brand.