It’s no secret that yoga and cannabis often work in tandem. In Colorado, Washington and Oregon, the states where cannabis is legal (along with some medical marijuana states like California), yoga studios are ramping up ganja-friendly classes. Colorado yoga teacher and cannabis advocate Rachael Carlevale recently opened a yoga business called Ganjasana that uses yoga to tap into what she says are innate connections humans share with the cannabis plant.

Now that marijuana is legal in Colorado, more business owners with weed-themed places are getting comfortable with marketing their products to those who enjoy partaking in pot. Even local celebrities are getting in on the act, and it’s not just the dispensaries that are turning to marketing tactics.

BusinessDen, a Denver-based business news site, reported on a fast-casual chain that is sprouting up in areas of the city – Cheba Hut. The cannabis-centered sandwich shop appeals to those who aren’t afraid to let their leaf flags fly, and more and more, that segment of the population is growing.

It’s a new kind of pot bust.

The Justice Department and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed criminal and civil charges against two Colorado men who allegedly reaped more than $12 million from selling bogus stock linked to a hydroponic marijuana firm.

The men, William Sears and Scott Dittman, used false financial filings and bogus letters from a lawyer to prop up FusionPharm Inc., inflating sales of refurbished shipping containers called PharmPods that are designed for growing pot indoors, the SEC said in a statement on Friday.

Yes, tourists are coming to Colorado for the weed — but just not as many as you might think. In fact, according to a state-subsidized survey, only 12 percent of visitors to this state visit a dispensary.

When you ask Colorado's first-ever director of marijuana co-ordination what's changed in the two years since the state legalized pot, he'll tell you that things look "roughly the same."

In other words, the streets are not filled with the scent of reefer and no government officials are swimming through mountains of money like Scrooge McDuck.

Andrew Freedman is often referred to in Colorado as the 'marijuana czar' because of his role as the state's director of marijuana coordination. (Linkedin)

In 2015, Andrew Freedman, who is often referred to as the state's marijuana czar, said taxes on medical and recreational marijuana added about $130-million to Colorado's $27-billion budget.

Red wine goes with steak. White wine is paired with chicken. So what strain of weed goes with fish?

Organizations such as the Trichome Institute are now offering courses to teach people how to answer that and other important weed-paring questions by better understanding the complexities of the marijuana plant. The the institute has trademarked a term for the skill: “interpening,” for interpreting marijuana terpenes, the organic in the plant’s essential oils.

Denver voters will decide this November whether marijuana consumption should be allowed in bars and restaurants.

Just days after the rejection of a competing measure proposed by the Denver chapter of NORML, elections officials announced last week that the issue of social marijuana use would still go before voters this fall.

On Thursday, organizers with the Neighborhood-Supported Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program received confirmation from the Denver Elections Division that the group collected enough signatures to earn a spot in the upcoming election.

The “Headaches” of the Legal Marijuana Industry

The legal-marijuana industry faces many challenges to doing business.

Most companies in the space are frozen out of bank, cannot use credit cards for transactions, and cannot get loans, huge headaches for the industry.

And marijuana is like any other commodity: when there’s a supply glut, the price falls. That is what is happening in legal markets like Colorado.

Cultivators are ramping up production and the price of marijuana is falling, causing profit margins for growers to decline.

Marijuana companies, especially those that deal with the plant directly, are squeezed between the high cost of doing business and lower profit margins from the falling price of cannabis.

Voters in Maine and a handful of other states are deciding whether to legalize recreational marijuana this November. One thing that could swing the vote is the possibility of millions of dollars in tax revenue from retail marijuana sales. Colorado was the first state in the country to roll out a tax scheme for legal marijuana in 2013, after recreational marijuana was legalized in 2012. So how are voters in Colorado spending the cash, and what should Maine voters expect?