Colorado-based small business owner Peyton Manning—who also dabbles in professional athletics with often mixed results—says that thanks largely to unspecified "recent law changes" his 25 Papa John's pizza franchises scattered across the state are all doing rather well.

A Texas cattle rancher this week stumbled upon nearly 5,500 marijuana plants with a street value of $2 million growing on land he had just leased from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.