Here's a little behind-the-scenes slice of a normal day in the news biz. Or maybe I should say a NORML day.

In a report I did on the marijuana business, I focused on a company called mCig, which sells a hybrid between an electronic cigarette and a joint. Basically, the $10 device takes anything from "dry herb" to oil, heats the substance to the edge of combustion and creates a vapor, or a vapor/smoke combination, that can be inhaled. To demonstrate the product, we asked mCig COO Mark Linkhorst to heat up some mCigs and vape them on camera. It was all done legally in a medical marijuana setting. Linkhorst is allowed to do this under Washington state law.

Read MoreSee it here: A gallery of medical marijuana First, there was "take one." Then we asked him to do it again. And again. And once more.