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.

The pot-of-gold at the end of a rainbow is now actually… POT itself!

ORMOND BEACH, FL – 01 June, 2016 – There’s a new Gold Rush happening that is gaining popularity as the “Green Rush” and every State tax assessor will soon be benefiting from their own local Legal Marijuana business sector producing millions in extra revenue like their predecessors in Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, not to mention the other 23 States where Medical Marijuana is legalized. There is no doubt that the Medical States will become recreational in short order.

A wave of recent polls shows that majorities of voters in five states, and a majority nationwide, support legalizing medical marijuana. Many voters also support legalizing marijuana for recreational use.

Eighty percent of Florida’s registered voters would support a state constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana. While support drops when voters are asked about recreational use, the issue still garners a majority with 56 percent for it and 41 percent against.

In its opening salvo of the 2016 campaign, Drug Free Florida claims the medical marijuana proposal on the November ballot is "still a scam to legalize pot."

The group, which successfully stopped a similiar amendment in 2014, released its first ad Monday under the banner of the 'Vote No on 2' campaign. It ties the proposed amendment to the permissive medical marijuana law in California.

Titled "Search," the video features a man snarkily commenting as he conducts an Internet search on California's dispensaries for medical pot. "Look at these names – seriously? Kush Mart?" he says. "They aren't even trying."

There wasn’t a tie-dyed shirt to be found last week at a gathering in Central Florida where the buzz was all about the business of pot.

More than 3,000 people from across the nation and seven other countries swapped information about grow lights, soil nutrients and safes — to stash money and products — at the marijuana industry’s premiere trade show. And the choice of Florida for the event was no accident.

Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan, a devout Catholic who's spent more than $7.5 million of his and his law firm's money trying to pass a constitutional amendment to broadly legalize medical marijuana, made a confession of sorts this week at the nation's largest pot trade show.

Morgan's proposal, which narrowly failed in 2014 to capture the 60 percent approval required for constitutional amendments to pass in Florida, will be back before voters in November.

A Florida law providing protections to just five medical marijuana growing operations, in what may become one of the nation's largest markets, has instigated a rush of legal challenges from dispensaries eager to enter the Sunshine State's green rush. 

The business of marijuana is attracting thousands of professionals from across the country to Osceola County for a national cannabis trade show.

• Marijuana Business Conference and Expo in Kissimmee through Wednesday
• Floridians learning more about marijuana in case medical marijuana becomes fully legal
• Miarjuana businessman said group of investors would do better as a new marijuana business

It’s also attracting Floridians who may jump into the medical marijuana game if it is legalized by Florida voters in November.

Raymond Weisbein, who runs PMS 4 DOCS LLC in South Florida, is inspired to step into the industry by his friends in Colorado.

Orlando attorney and legal magnate John Morgan is giving the keynote address at the Marijuana Business Conference and Expo, which opened today at Gaylord Palms Meeting Center, 6000 W. Osceola Parkway.

The event costs $800 for the full conference and $400 for meals and exposition only. It began today with a reception and a separate "crash course" for beginners that costs extra. It continues Tuesday and Wednesday with a full schedule.

Morgan, founder of Morgan & Morgan law firm, is also chairman of United for Care, an advocacy group for the legalization of medical marijuana in Florida.

THIS sports convertible brings new meaning to “high-performance” vehicle.

Made from the chassis of a Mazda, the car is made from cannabis hemp — and is touted as possibly leading the charge in making carbon-neutral vehicles, Barcroft Media reported.

Bruce Michael Dietzen from Florida, the mastermind behind the “green machine,” hopes his environmentally friendly car will weed out the taboo behind the cannabis plant.

“Cannabis hemp is still considered a dangerous drug according to the government. It’s considered as dangerous as heroin or cocaine — it’s insane!” he said. “This green machine is made from three plies of woven hemp, making it lighter than cars made from fibreglass.”