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 The Mincing Mockingbird is artist/writer/designer duo Kim Bagwill and Matt Adrian, the married couple responsible for the products on mincingmockingbird.com. Among them is the amazing postcard featured here and which our editor-in-chief has hanging on her wall. If you read it and find yourself wondering, Who is the “she?” referenced on the card, she is you and...

 Refreshed, online, and free to the public, Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Hash Bash is celebrating its 50th birthday with a focus on the need for federal legalization and repairing the harms inflicted by the drug war. “Hash Bash is committed to the advocacy of federal cannabis legalization and to giving cannabis users and patients a voice,” said the...

Back in the day, most every household had a turntable (a.k.a. record player) but when CDs rose to prominence in the late 1980s, many music fans abandoned those epic vinyl collections. Now we’re all chomping at the bit to get our favorite music in the form of vinyl records again, kicking ourselves for giving away that original Michael...

Beats Solo3 Dre Headphones, part of the Beats by Dre product line, are the quintessential must-have for every lover of pure sound. These noise-cancelling headphones are the perfect tool to drown out the outside world, and the new line of pink, red, and black Beats Solo3 headphones appeal to the savvy and style-conscious consumer. The sleek design that...

IN-EAR HEADPHONES NuraLoop These easy-to-wear in-ear headphones are truly in your head—they adapt to your hearing. Say what? That’s right. They actually send sound into your eardrum that then informs the system about the best way to play for your individual hearing. The result is bass that hits the back of your brain and sharp clarity on every...

Pretend you’re new to cannabis and you’ve heard that it can pretty much fix (or enhance) whatever ails you. But you’re too chicken or live too far in the woods to go to an actual weed shop. Cloud Cannabis, a dispensary working to destigmatize and demystify the cannabis shopping experience, has a solution. The online platform allows customers...

In 2015, Detroit native Whitney Beatty was a senior vice president at Warner Brothers Telepictures in Los Angeles, developing reality TV shows for the Judge Mathis brand. By then, she’d discovered “a real ability to seek out niche markets,” she says. “I know customer base. I know what people want. I know what stories they want to hear—and...

Outdoor activities cause sore muscles. CBD is said to relieve pain. Even though the outdoor industry has dabbled in the cannabidiol market for a few years, it wasn’t until this year that a dedicated outdoor brand contributed its own formulations to the billion-dollar category.  In January, Kelty launched a collection of pain-relief salves, after-sun lotions, and antibacterial and...

Try this bath bomb for a soothing explosion. Want to have a steamy stay-at-home date night? Put Barry White on the sound system, spark up a few rosewood candles, draw a hot bath, and drop in this bath bomb from Life Elements. Named after the Goddess of Love and crafted with 300mg of organic CBD, the Venus bath...

Michigan issues its first-ever microbusiness license to a craft cannabis farmer. You know something’s working when what you love starts paying the bills. That’s what happened to Ben Kolasa last September, when the 33-year-old stepped into the world of craft cannabis entrepreneurship. Kolasa had been growing his own weed since 2009 as a way to have some control...