Software for the marijuana industry set to yield high returns

Is there software in the burgeoning legal marijuana industry? Just a dab. With four states offering legal marijuana, and more than 20 with medical or decriminalized cannabis laws, the business of selling the plant and its derivatives is growing every year.

Naturally, software developers, vendors and startups alike are all looking to cash in on the boom. Silicon Valley, itself located in a state with legalized medical marijuana, has even produced a few pot startups.

Leafly, for example, offers an index of pot shops, crowdsourced information on the powers and effects of various strains, and coverage of the industry as a whole, no different than a wine blog or beer magazine.

Renowned startup incubator Y Combinator has even funded Meadow, a medical marijuana home delivery company. (Y Combinator is the incubator at which companies like Airbnb, Cloudkick and Dropbox were fostered.)

And a company called Flowhub, which provides cannabis companies...

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