THE BEST WEED UNDER THE SUN
WHEN MIKEY STEINMETZ, the CEO of Flow Kana, tells his company’s origin story, one can feel his enthusiasm for cannabis, for the family farms of Northern California and for the wider world.
“I moved to California with my wife in 2013, and really the project was started by both of us,” Steinmetz says. “We spent a good year and a half just doing research, just trying to understand the industry.” And so he networked around San Francisco, went to conferences, met a lot of people and volunteered in a large East Bay dispensary. Eventually a broker there invited Steinmetz and his wife, Flavia Cassani, up to see the verdant crops and brown hills of the Emerald Triangle, the spectacular confluence of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties to the north.
It was there in the summer of 2014 that Steinmetz and Cassani had their road-to-Damascus
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